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Dean Keith Simonton1

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California. dksimonton@ucdavis.edu.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|May 18, 2016
PubMed
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The common IQ-based definition of genius is arbitrary. True genius involves domain-specific skills, personality traits, and diverse experiences, not just high IQ scores.

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