Dr. Denise Dellarosa Cummins is a research psychologist and the author of Good Thinking: Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think.
Dr. Cummins has held faculty and research positions at Yale University, the University of California, the University of Illinois, and the Center for Adaptive Behavior at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. She is a respected cognitive scientist who has authored numerous scientific articles, and is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She also gives invited talks about her research at universities and popular venues all over the world. In her Psychology Today blog, Dr. Cummins writes about what she and other cognitive scientists are discovering about the way people think, solve problems, and make decisions. For more information please visit her homepage. You can follow Dr. Cummins on Twitter and Google+.
Sometimes classroom behavior problems signal giftedness. Brad and Karen were at their wits end. Their grade school children once again came home with stern disciplinary notes from their teachers, notes riddled with complaints of inattention, acting out, "back-talk", "bossiness", and an inability to "play well with others". The teachers had gotten together and decided to recommend that the children be ...
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