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This engaging and insightful book explores the four candidates that traditionally have been suggested to explain creativity in science. Recommended. -R.M. Davis, Albion College, CHOICE Simonton is a very clear writer, and the empirical support he marshals is impressive. Although the book begins with an advisement of mathematical formulae to be used, Simonton does not bog the reader down with equations. Instead, he affirms the superiority of the change approach as an overarching explanation to scientific creativity with a thorough account of how the causal predictions based on the logic, genius, and zeitgeist perspectives ultimately contradict available data. -Christopher H. Ramey, Department of Psychology, Florida Southern College, Philosophical Psychology

This engaging and insightful book explores the four candidates that traditionally have been suggested to explain creativity in science. Recommended. -R.M. Davis, Albion College, CHOICE Simonton is a very clear writer, and the empirical support he marshals is impressive. Although the book begins with an advisement of mathematical formulae to be used, Simonton does not bog the reader down with equations. Instead, he affirms the superiority of the change approach as an overarching explanation to scientific creativity with a thorough account of how the causal predictions based on the logic, genius, and zeitgeist perspectives ultimately contradict available data. -Christopher H. Ramey, Department of Psychology, Florida Southern College, Philosophical Psychology

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Dean Keith Simonton is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of nine books, including Genius, Creativity, and Leadership (1984), Scientific Genius (Cambridge 1988), Psychology, Science, and History (1990), Greatness (1994), Origins of Genius (1999) and Great Psychologists and their Times (2002).

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