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James C. Kaufman is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focused emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Additional subfields of interest include social psychology, visual arts and performing arts, and developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work cover a broad range within creativity and education as well as neuroscience, notably:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Art Education and Development
  • Design Education and Practice
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Kaufman has published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • Creativity Research Journal
  • Thinking Skills and Creativity
  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Possibility Studies & Society

Some recent papers reflecting the scope of their research include:

  • What makes immersive virtual reality the ultimate empathy machine? Discerning the underlying mechanisms of change (2020), Computers in Human Behavior
  • Artificial Intelligence & Creativity: A Manifesto for Collaboration (2023), The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • What Is Creativity in Education? A Qualitative Study of International Curricula (2021), Journal of Advanced Academics
  • Creativity in the age of generative AI (2023), Nature Human Behaviour
  • Meaning-Making Through Creativity During COVID-19 (2020), Frontiers in Psychology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, among them:

  • Hansika Kapoor
  • Jessica D. Hoffmann
  • Vlad Petre Glăveanu
  • Roni Reiter-Palmon
  • Zorana Ivčević

Kaufman has published books through notable academic publishers, including Cambridge University Press and Palgrave studies in creativity and culture. These works include:

  • The Creativity Advantage (2023), Cambridge University Press
  • Creativity, Innovation, and Change Across Cultures (2023), Palgrave studies in creativity and culture

Best Publications

  • Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity:

    James C. Kaufman;Ronald A. Beghetto

  • Toward a broader conception of creativity: A case for "mini-c" creativity.

    Ronald A. Beghetto;James C. Kaufman

  • The Cambridge handbook of creativity.

    James C. Kaufman;Robert J. Sternberg

  • Gender Differences in Creativity

    John Baer;James C. Kaufman

  • Essentials of Creativity Assessment

    James C. Kaufman;Jonathan A. Plucker;John Baer

  • The class II molecules of the human and murine major histocompatibility complex.

    James F. Kaufman;Charles Auffray;Alan J. Korman;Deborah A. Shackelford

  • Classroom contexts for creativity

    Ronald A. Beghetto;James C. Kaufman

  • The Creativity Conundrum: A Propulsion Model of Kinds of Creative Contributions

    Robert J. Sternberg;James C. Kaufman;Jean E. Pretz

  • Bridging Generality and Specificity: The Amusement Park Theoretical (APT) Model of Creativity

    John Baer;James C. Kaufman

  • The International Handbook of Creativity.

    James C. Kaufman;Robert J. Sternberg

  • Counting the Muses: Development of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS)

    James C. Kaufman

  • Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children

    David Loomis;Ryan Holt;James C. Kaufman;Alan S. Kaufman

  • The dark side of creativity

    David H. Cropley;Arthur J. Cropley;James C. Kaufman;Mark A. Runco

  • A Comparison of Expert and Nonexpert Raters Using the Consensual Assessment Technique

    James C. Kaufman;John Baer;Jason C. Cole;Janel D. Sexton

  • Assessing creativity with self-report scales: A review and empirical evaluation.

    Paul J. Silvia;Benjamin Wigert;Roni Reiter-Palmon;James C. Kaufman

  • Malevolent Creativity: A Functional Model of Creativity in Terrorism and Crime

    David H. Cropley;James C. Kaufman;Arthur J. Cropley

  • Beyond New and Appropriate: Who Decides What Is Creative?

    James C. Kaufman;John Baer

  • Extension of the Consensual Assessment Technique to Nonparallel Creative Products

    John Baer;James C. Kaufman;Claudia A. Gentile

  • Is creativity domain-specific? Latent class models of creative accomplishments and creative self-descriptions.

    Paul J. Silvia;James C. Kaufman;Jean E. Pretz

  • Gender Differences in Mathematics: An Integrative Psychological Approach

    Ann M. Gallagher;James C. Kaufman

  • Self-Reported Differences in Creativity by Ethnicity and Gender

    James C. Kaufman

Frequent Co-Authors

John Baer
John Baer Rider University
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Ronald A. Beghetto
Ronald A. Beghetto Arizona State University
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Roni Reiter-Palmon University of Nebraska at Omaha
Alan S. Kaufman
Alan S. Kaufman University of Connecticut
Gregory J. Feist
Gregory J. Feist San Jose State University
Jonathan A. Plucker
Jonathan A. Plucker Johns Hopkins University
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Arthur J. Cropley
Arthur J. Cropley Universität Hamburg
Stephan Beck
Stephan Beck University College London

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