The Psychology of High Performance: Developing Human Potential Into Domain-Specific Talent

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Rena F. SubotnikPhD is director of the Center for Psychology in Schools and Education at the American Psychological Association in Washington DC. She is coauthor (with Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Frank C. Worrell) of the articles The U.S. Neglects Its Best Science Students (Scientific American); Nurturing the Young Genius: Renewing Our Commitment to Gifted Education Is the Key to a More Innovative Productive and Culturally Rich Society (Scientific American Mind); and Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education: A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science (Psychological Science in the Public Interest). She is coeditor of the books Methodologies for Conducting Research on Giftedness (with Bruce Thompson 2010) and The Development of Giftedness and Talent Across the Life Span (with Frances Degan Horowitz and Dona J. Matthews 2009).Paula Olszewski-Kubilius PhD is the director of the Center for Talent Development and a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. Recent publications include Minority Achievement Gaps in STEM: Findings of a Longitudinal Study of Project Excite (with Saiying Steenbergen-Hu Rhoda Rosen and Dana Thomson 2017) in Gifted Child Quarterly and The Role of the Family in Talent Development (with Rena F. Subotnik and Frank C. Worrell 2018) in the APA Handbook of Giftedness and Talent. She is past-president of the National Association for Gifted Children from which she received the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2009.  Frank C. WorrellPhD is a professor of school psychology at the University of California Berkeley. A current member-at-large of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association Dr. Worrell is a former editor of the Review of Educational Research and a 2013 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Gifted Children. Recent publications include Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School (with Rhona S. Weinstein 2016) and Talent Development: A Path Towards Eminence (with Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Rena F. Subotnik 2018) in the APA Handbook ofGiftedness and Talent.