Scientific Inquiry into Human Potential explores the intellectual legacy and contemporary understanding of scientific research on human intelligence, performance, and productivity. Across nineteen chapters, some of the most eminent scholars of learning and psychology recount how they originated, distinguished, measured, challenged, and adapted their theories on the nature and nurture of human potential over decades of scientific research. These accessible, autobiographical accounts cover a spectrum of issues, from the biological underpinnings and developmental nature of human potential to the roles of community, social interaction, and systematic individual differences in cognitive and motivational functioning. Researchers, instructors, and graduate students of education, psychology, sociology, and biology will find this book not only historically informative but inspiring to their own ongoing research journeys, as well.

About the Author

David Yun Dai is Professor of Educational Psychology and Methodology in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor in the Department of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, USA, and Honorary Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University, Germany.

Reviews

"Writing from their lifetime experiences as researchers, the contributors to this volume offer rich conceptions of human potential going beyond any single number or lucky gene."

-David Perkins, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"The study of human potential and related concepts is critically important to all areas of human endeavor, from education to business, from the arts to medicine, and everything in between. Dai and Sternberg have assembled a fascinating set of reflections in this volume, representing the work and thoughts of many of the top thinkers on human potential over the past several decades."

-Jonathan A. Plucker, Julian C. Stanley Professor of Talent Development, Johns Hopkins University

"David Yun Dai and Robert J. Sternberg have gathered a collection of nineteen articles that offer a rich variety of the scientific inquiry into human potential. This book will likely be of interest to seasoned colleagues and students as well as intellectually curious adults."

-Frances Degen Horowitz, Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA

"Writing from their lifetime experiences as researchers, the contributors to this volume offer rich conceptions of human potential going beyond any single number or lucky gene."

-David Perkins, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA

"The study of human potential and related concepts is critically important to all areas of human endeavor, from education to business, from the arts to medicine, and everything in between. Dai and Sternberg have assembled a fascinating set of reflections in this volume, representing the work and thoughts of many of the top thinkers on human potential over the past several decades."

-Jonathan A. Plucker, Julian C. Stanley Professor of Talent Development, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Book Information
ISBN 9780367261368
Author David Yun Dai
Format Paperback
Page Count 284
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g