Barbara Kerr
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LOCATION: Lawrence, KS, United States
Williamson Family Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Kansas at Lawrence. Author of Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness and others.
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Genius, in psychology, a person of extraordinary intellectual power. Definitions of genius in terms of intelligence quotient (IQ) are based on research originating in the early 1900s. In 1916 the American psychologist Lewis M. Terman set the IQ for “potential genius” at 140 and above, a level…
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