Dean Keith Simonton's areas of expertise are:
Genius, creativity, leadership, and aesthetics - the cognitive, dispositional, developmental, and sociocultural factors behind eminence, giftedness, and talent in science, philosophy, literature, music, art, cinema, politics, and war, with the greatest emphasis on scientific genius.
Archival data analysis - cross-cultural, transhistorical, biographical, and content analytical measures, with special stress on the historiometric analyses of eminent personalities, creative products, and notable events.
History of psychology - including analyses from the standpoint of the psychology of science, especially the psychology of distinguished scientists and eminent psychologists.
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