Creative Mythconceptions: A Closer Look at the Evidence for the "Mad Genius" Hypothesis

By J. Schlesinger. 2009

113 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. James C. Kaufman
2. R. Beghetto
3. Selcuk Acar
4. Maciej Karwowski
5. John Baer
6. Paul J Silvia
7. R. Reiter‐Palmon
8. Jonas Oppenlaender

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. R. Beghetto
2. James C. Kaufman
3. Selcuk Acar
4. Maciej Karwowski
5. John Baer
6. V. Glăveanu
7. A. Gajda
8. J. Baxter

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. James C. Kaufman
2. R. Beghetto
3. Selcuk Acar
4. Maciej Karwowski
5. John Baer
6. Paul J Silvia
7. R. Reiter‐Palmon
8. Baptiste Barbot

Citations in the corpus

• Creativity and Well‐being: A Meta‐analysis (2020, background): “Consequently, those studies do not seem to represent the whole picture of the prevalence of psychopathology among people who practice creativity or make creative contributions to their fields (Dietrich, 2014; Schlesinger, 2009; Simonton, 2014a).”
• In Praise of Clark Kent: Creative Metacognition and the Importance of Teaching Kids When (Not) to Be Creative (2013, background): “Lindauer (1994), Rothenberg (1990, 1995), and Schlesinger (2009), among others, have extensively published their concerns about the validity of these results.”