James Kaufman - Creativity and Intelligence

James C. Kaufman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in Cognitive Psychology in 2001. Kaufman is an international leader in the field of creativity, known for his research on such areas as everyday creativity, creativity assessment, creativity and fairness, and creativity and mental health.

Publications and Research

Dr. Kaufman is the author or editor of more than 20 books. These include: Creativity 101; Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (with Robert Sternberg); Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with Jonathan Plucker and John Baer), International Handbook of Creativity (with Robert Sternberg), and Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom (with Ron Beghetto). He has published more than 200 papers, chapters, and reviews. His research has been featured and discussed in CNN, NPR, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, and the BBC. He has traveled around the world talking about the power of creativity, keynoting in Taiwan, Qatar, Korea, Spain, France, and other places.

Professional Contributions

Dr. Kaufman is the President of American Psychological Association’s Division 10 (Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts). He is a Fellow of APA Divisions 1, 5, and 10 and the Association for Psychological Science. He was a founding co-editor of the official journal for APA’s Division 10, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. He is also the founding editor of APA’s newest journal, Psychology of Popular Media Culture. In addition, he has served as the Associate Editor of Psychological Assessment and the Journal of Creative Behavior. He is also the editor of the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving and he is the Series Editor of the “Psych 101” series from Springer Publishing.

Awards and Honors

His awards and honors include the 2003 Daniel E. Berlyne Award and the 2012 Paul Farnsworth Award from APA’s Division 10, the 2008 E. Paul Torrance Award from the National Association of Gifted Children, the 2011-2012 Mensa Education & Research Foundation’s Award for Excellence in Research, and the 2009 Early Career Research Award from the Western Psychological Association.

[maksxperia]

Interesting! The background at the end made me spiral

[kitakawa]

I thought this was really interesting, though i think that the conclusion that intelligence and creativity aren't as related as you might think is kinda biased.
I agree that the correlation between intelligence and creativity lessens as intelligence increases, but by your own words, the CHC theory recognizes both crystalized intelligence and fluid intelligence.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't Long term memory deals almost exclusively with the crystalized intelligence, which in turn is created by the fluid intelligence.
In the same way a better coder might write better code, a more intelligent person will find better ways to store crystallized information.
This has been shown by people who have had their fluid intelligence reduced due to age, yet their crystallized information remains the same, because it is only the "code writing" efficiency that has been reduced, not the "code reading".

For me, it feels as if i agree to you general premise of intelligence not being as correlated to creativity as people might think, but that subsections of intelligence (crystallized intelligence) is more correlated rather than intelligence as a whole, and crystallized intelligence is in turn dependent on fluid intelligence for quality. Meaning Creativit <- crystalized intelligence <- fluid intelligence, Where <- correlated or dependent

[Twodime]

Creative people are intelligent but intelligent people are not necessarily creative