Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD

Named one of "50 Groundbreaking Scientists changing the way we see the world" by Business Insider in 2015, Scott Barry Kaufman (PhD, cognitive psychology, Yale; M.Phil, experimental psychology, University of Cambridge), is a humanistic psychologist who has taught at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, NYU, and elsewhere. He writes the column Beautiful Minds for Scientific American and hosts The Psychology Podcast, which has received more than 10 million downloads. His writings have appeared in The Atlantic and Harvard Business Review, and his books include UngiftedWired to Create (with Carolyn Gregoire), and, as editor, Twice Exceptional and, as co-editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence

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