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Applying discrete choice models to predict Academy Award winners by Pardoe, Iain, Simonton, Dean K.

“…Every year since 1928, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recognized outstanding achievement in film with their prestigious Academy Award, or…”
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Artistic creativity and interpersonal relationships across and within generations by Simonton, Dean K

“…772 artists from diverse historical periods were assessed for achieved eminence, and their relationships with other artists were gauged in terms of both…”
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Conceptual Versus Experimental Creativity: Which Works Best on Convergent and Divergent Thinking Tasks? by Nielsen, Bayard D, Pickett, Cynthia L, Simonton, Dean K

“…David Galenson's research on creativity has identified two unique creative methods: conceptual and experimental. These methods have different processes, goals,…”
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The Swan-Song Phenomenon: Last-Works Effects for 172 Classical Composers by Simonton, Dean Keith

“…Creative individuals approaching their final years of life may undergo a transformation in outlook that is reflected in their last works. This hypothesized…”
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Emergence and Realization of Genius: The Lives and Works of 120 Classical Composers by Simonton, Dean Keith

“…Building on a model of individual differences in career development, new predictions are proposed regarding the preparatory phase of a creative life. After…”
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Age and Outstanding Achievement: What Do We Know After a Century of Research? by Simonton, Dean Keith

“…This article examines, in four sections, the substantial literature on the longitudinal connection between personal age and outstanding achievement in domains…”
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Creative productivity, age, and stress: A biographical time-series analysis of 10 classical composers by Simonton, Dean K

“…Specified the determinants of creative productivity in the form of 6 hypotheses. Using a multivariate, cross-sectional, time-series design with several…”
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Leaders of American Psychology, 1879-1967: Career Development, Creative Output, and Professional Achievement by Simonton, Dean Keith

“…Building on previous work in the metasciences, this article examines 69 eminent psychologists who helped make the United States a center of disciplinary…”
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Career Landmarks in Science: Individual Differences and Interdisciplinary Contrasts by Simonton, Dean Keith

“…A conceptual framework is introduced for interpreting individual differences in the developmental location of the first, best, and last contributions of a…”
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Latent-Variable Models of Posthumous Reputation: A Quest for Galton's G by Simonton, Dean Keith

“…Galton's (1869) theory of genius posits an intimate correspondence between personal ability and social eminence. This connection implies that the covariance…”
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Presidential Style: Personality, Biography, and Performance by Simonton, Dean Keith

“…Past research on the personality basis of leadership has led several investigators to study the characteristics of American presidents using content-analytical…”
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Intelligence and Personal Influence in Groups: Four Nonlinear Models by Simonton, Dean Keith

“…Four models are progressively developed that provide a conceptual basis for a curvilinear relation between intelligence and an individual's influence over…”
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Eminence, creativity, and geographical marginality: A recursive structural equation model by Simonton, Dean K

“…Tested a recursive structural equation model that specifies the individual and generational causes--both direct and indirect--of achieved eminence. Although…”
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Thematic fame, melodic originality, and musical zeitgeist: A biographical and transhistorical content analysis by Simonton, Dean K

“…15,618 musical themes by 479 classical composers were selected from H. Barlow and S. Morgenstern's (1948, 1976) thematic dictionaries to determine whether the…”
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Presidential greatness and personality : a response to McCann (1992) by SIMONTON, D. K

“…When McCann (1992) offered a set of equations that predict presidential greatness, he argued that his equations contradict the attributional model put forth by…”
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Sociocultural context of individual creativity: A transhistorical time-series analysis by Simonton, Dean K

“…Tested hypotheses which specify individual creativity as a function of developmental and productive period variables. It was argued that these hypotheses could…”
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Cross-sectional time-series experiments: Some suggested statistical analyses by Simonton, Dean K

“…In the past, statistical analyses for time-series experiments have usually operated with a single-case model, thereby limiting the general applicability of the…”
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Intergenerational transfer of individual differences in hereditary monarchs: Genetic, role-modeling, cohort, or sociocultural effects? by Simonton, Dean K

“…342 hereditary monarchs were drawn from 14 European nations. Ss, along with their parents, grandparents, and predecessors, were then assessed on the variables…”
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Multiple discovery and invention: Zeitgeist, genius, or chance? by Simonton, Dean K

“…The occurrence of independent contributions by 2 or more scientists can be interpreted in terms of zeitgeist, genius, or chance. The relative adequacy of these…”
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Biographical determinants of achieved eminence: A multivariate approach to the Cox data by Simonton, Dean K

“…Used multiple regression analysis to reexamine C. Cox's (1926) sample of 301 genuises in order to test the hypothesis that ranked eminence of creators and…”
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