List of Contributors

Nancy C. Andreasen MD Ph.D. is the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, USA. She is a recipient of the President's National Medal of Science, awarded in part for her work on pioneering neuroimaging technologies and using them to study processes such as memory and creativity.

Laura C. Ball MA is a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at York University, Canada and is the Knowledge Translation and Implementation Coordinator at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, Canada. She is interested in technologies of the self, feminist theory, historiography, and integrated knowledge translation. Her recent publications in this area include an article in History of Psychology titled “Genius without the ‘Great Man’: New Possibilities for the Historian of Psychology.”

Merim Bilalić is a professor in the Department of General Psychology and Cognitive Science at Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria. He received his D.Phil. from Oxford University, UK in 2006. He is interested in cognitive and neural mechanisms in expertise, and his work on the Einstellung effect won the British Psychological Society's Award for the Outstanding Doctoral Research Contribution to Psychology in 2008. He has published on cognitive aspects of expertise in Cognitive Psychology and Cognition, on their neural implementation in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and Journal of Neuroscience, and on individual differences in Intelligence and Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He spent most of his career at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, where he is professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology. His research and teaching career spans social psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, individual differences, evolutionary psychology, and behavior genetics. His current research interests are in the domains of social attitudes, personality, and values.

Stacey L. Bridges is an instructor at East Central University in Oklahoma City, USA.

Guillermo Campitelli is a senior lecturer at Edith Cowan University, Australia. He investigates individual differences in performance, judgments, and decisions with the ultimate goal of advancing knowledge to help individuals, organizations, and societies maximize performance, improve the quality of judgments, and make rational and adaptive decisions. His recent article “Deliberate Practice: Necessary but not sufficient,” published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, exemplifies his extensive research in chess. expertise.

Shelley H. Carson Ph.D. is an associate of the Department of Psychology and lecturer in extension at Harvard University, USA where she conducts research and teaches courses on creativity, abnormal psychology, and resilience. Her work on creativity has been published in national and international peer-reviewed science journals and has been highlighted in national media, including the Discovery Channel, CNN, and National Public Radio. She is also author of the award-winning book Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life and co-author of Almost Depressed: Is My or My Loved One's Unhappiness a Problem?

David Cope is currently Dickerson Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA. He is primarily known for his work in computer composition in musical styles and is the creator of Experiments in Musical Intelligence. His own music includes nine symphonies, four operas, many symphonic poems, and chamber music of various kinds. These works have been performed extensively around the world. His books include New Directions in Music (7th ed.), Techniques of the Contemporary Composer, Computers and Musical Style, Experiments in Musical Intelligence, The Algorithmic Composer, Virtual Music, and Computer Models of Musical Creativity. He is also published four novels (Death of Karlin Mulrey, Not by Death Alone, Death by Proxy, and Mind Over Death), two books of short stories (Of Blood and Tears and My Gun is Loaded), and a book of 2,000 haiku called Comes the Fiery Night. His algorithmic art has been exhibited in several venues as well. He currently lives with his wife in Santa Cruz, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was born in Fiume, Italy (now Rijeka, Croatia), to Hungarian parents. He left Italy in 1956 to study in the United States. He received a Ph.D. in human development from the University of Chicago, USA in 1965 and started teaching at a nearby college. During this time, he developed the basic model of the flow experience. In 1970 Mihaly returned to the University of Chicago, where he became chair of the Department of Psychology. In 1999 he accepted an offer to teach at the Claremont Graduate University in California, USA where he started the first doctoral program in positive psychology.

Rodica Ioana Damian earned her Ph.D. in social-personality psychology from the University of California, Davis, USA in 2013. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA working with Dr Brent Roberts. Her research program is aimed at understanding the role of environmental antecedents on personality development and downstream consequences for achievement and creativity. In recognition of her research, Dr Damian has been awarded the Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowship and the Social Sciences Dean's Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence Award by the University of California, Davis, USA and the Frank X. Barron Award by the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Division 10 of the American Psychological Association.

Katherine A. Duggan is a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is interested in the relationships between personality, sleep, and health across the lifespan. A Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship Award recipient, Duggan has uncovered some of the first evidence for lifespan associations between sleep and health.

K. Anders Ericsson is Conradi Eminent Scholar at Florida State University, USA. He studies expert performance and how expert performers attain their superior performance by acquiring complex cognitive mechanisms through extended deliberate practice. He has edited the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance and The Development of Professional Expertise.

Jeff Fajans MA is a doctoral student in positive organizational psychology at Claremont Graduate University, USA. His research focuses on creativity, innovation, and how mobile technologies can be leveraged as positive developmental interventions to achieve enhanced outcomes such as well-being, creative performance, and learning.

Gregory J. Feist is currently associate professor of psychology in personality at San José State University, USA and director of the MA program in research and experimental psychology. He has also taught at the College of William & Mary and the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California at Berkeley and his undergraduate degree in 1985 from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is widely published in the psychology of creativity, the psychology of science, and the development of scientific talent. One major focus of his work is establishing the psychology of science as a healthy and independent study of science, along the lines of the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. His major efforts toward this end are publishing a book entitled Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind, which was awarded the 2007 William James Book Prize by the Division of General Psychology, American Psychological Association (APA); being the founding president of the newly formed “International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology”; and being the founding editor-in-chief of a new peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Psychology of Science & Technology.

Howard S. Friedman is distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, USA. He has received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science, a career award for applied research. His latest book is The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study, which summarizes his 20-year scientific study of the pathways to health and long life. This book won first place in the Wellness category in the Books for A Better Life awards competition. Friedman has also received many teaching awards, including most recently the national Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award, for “inspiring students to make a difference in the community.” http://www.psych.ucr.edu/faculty/friedman/index.html

Victor Ginsburgh, is honorary professor of economics at ECARES, Université libre de Bruxellles, Belgium and is also affiliated to CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He has written and edited many books and is the author...