Associate Professor of Educational Psychology (Learning, Cognition, and Instruction Program)
(812) 856-8315
jplucker@indiana.edu
Personal Home Page: http://php.indiana.edu/~jplucker/

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995

• Visiting Scholar, Duke University Talent Identification Program, 1998
• Editorial Boards for Gifted Child Quarterly, Roeper Review, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Journal of Research in Rural Education

• Robert C. Berlyne Award for outstanding research by a junior scholar, APA Division 10, 1998
• National Association for Gifted Children Early Scholar Award, 2001

• Measurement of complex constructs, especially intelligence and creativity
• Affective influences on development of intellectual talents
• Implicit theories of intelligence and creativity

Barab, S. A., & Plucker, J. (in press). Smart people or smart contexts? Talent development in an age of situated approaches to learning and thinking. Educational Psychologist.

Gorman, M. E., & Plucker, J. (in press). Teaching invention as critical creative processes: A course on technoscientific creativity. In M. A. Runco (Ed.), Critical creative processes. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.Lim, B., Plucker,

J., & Bichelmeyer, B. (in press). Attitudinal effects of learning by Web design with graduate students. College Teaching.

Lim, W., Plucker, J., & Im, K. (in press). We're more alike than we think we are: Implicit theories of intelligence with a Korean sample. Intelligence.

Plucker, J. (in press). What's in a name? Young adolescents' implicit conceptions of invention. Science Education.

Runco, M. A. , Plucker, J., & Lim, W. (2000-2001). Development and psychometric integrity of a measure of ideational behavior. Creativity Research Journal, 13, 393-400.

Plucker, J., & Stocking, V. (2001). Looking outside and inside: Self-concept development of gifted adolescents. Exceptional Children, 67, 535-548.

Lim, W., & Plucker, J. (2001). Creativity through a lens of social responsibility: Implicit theories of creativity with Korean samples. Journal of Creative Behavior, 35, 115-130.

Plucker, J. (2001). Looking back, looking around, looking forward: The impact of intelligence theories on gifted education. Roeper Review, 23, 124-125.

Plucker, J., & Levy, J. J. (2001). The downside of being talented [Comment]. American Psychologist, 56, 75-76.

Plucker, J., & Runco, M. (1999). Enhancement of creativity. In M. A Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (pp. 669-675). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Plucker, J., & Dana, R. Q. (1999). Drugs and creativity. In M. A Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (pp. 607-611). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Plucker, J., & Renzulli, J. S. (1999). Psychometric approaches to the study of human creativity. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 35-60). New York: Cambridge University Press.