Simonton's+View+of+the+Precocity-Late+Bloomer+Issue

According to Dean Keith Simonton: (Personal Communication, 10/25/11)
====  "Gladwell's treatment of Galenson ignores recent research on his theory, research that casts considerable doubt on its validity. Interestingly, I conducted a study using Galenson's own data showing that it contradicts his assertions - assertions that Gladwell repeats. See the attachments for examples:" ====

Creative Life Cycles in Literature: Poets Versus Novelists or Conceptualists Versus Experimentalists? [|2007CreativeLifeCycles.pdf] The life cycles of artists: [|GinsburghWeyers2005.pdf]

"I also discuss his theory in my Great Flicks in the chapter on directors."
==== "[|Winner] has also written on this, criticizing his theory. According to her, Galenson's description of Picasso's creativity is completely off base, a position supported by my own empirical research on Picasso. See, for example, the attached" [|DamianSimontonOnlineFirst2011.pdf] ====

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= =  References: Damian, R. I., & Simonton, D. K. (2011, March 21). From Past to Future Art: The Creative Impact of Picasso's 1935 Minotauromachy on His 1937 Guernica. //Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.// Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0023017

Galenson, D.W. (2006). //Old masters and young geniuses, the two life cycles of artistic creativity.// Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Starkweather, H. (2006, November). Interview: David Galenson, Pondering the nature of artistic genius, a social scientist finds that creativity has a bottom line. //Smithsonian Magazine.// Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/interview-galenson.html

Ginsburgh, V., & Weyers, S. (2006). Creativity and life cycles of artists. //Journal of Cultural Econonmics, 30,// 91-107. DOI 10.1007/s10824-006-9011-x

Gladwell, M. (2008, October 20) Late bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? //The New Yorker// retrieved from http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_10_20_a_latebloomers.html

Pink, D. (2006, July). What kind of genius are you? //Wired, 14//-07. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/genius_pr.html

Simonton, D.K. (2007). Creative Life Cycles in Literature: Poets Versus Novelists or Conceptualists Versus Experimentalists? //Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 1//, 3, 133–139.

Simonton, D.K. (2011). //Great flicks: Scientific studies of cinematic creativity and aesthetics.// New York: Oxford University Press.

==== Winner, E. (2004, July 2). Art history can trade insights with the sciences. //Chronicle of Higher Education,// B10-12. ====

Who are Gladwell, Galenson, Simonton, Winner, and Pink? I think their backgrounds are very helpful in judging their work. ====Videos: Interview with Gladwell Simonton's Torrance Lecture, Winneron Art's Habits of Mind, and Pink in the 21st Century Mind.====