Exceptional Talent and Genius

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 633-655

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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