The psychology of creativity and genius: reflections on Shakespeare and the Oxfordian challenge.

The manifestation of genius evident in the creative endeavors of those in artistic and scientific professions has long-held the imagination of scholars interested in delving into causal origins of like brilliance. Until recently, the specific contribution of the social sciences to resolution of the authorship question has been relatively mut outside of personality analyses and interpretive suppositions. The predictive potential of psychological research to point to the greatest in quantity likely author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare is substantial, notwithstanding that admittedly difficult. The present inquiry will attempt to outline critical ultimate parts of the broad, extant empirical literature upon the individual ...