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Nokelainen, Petri; Tirri, Kirsi; Campbell, James Reed; Walberg, Herbert – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
In the 1940s, Lewis Terman (1954a, 1954b) studied "life success" of 730 gifted men at the midpoint of their careers and found that success is associated with stability and absence of disturbing conflicts. In this article, we use retrospective data (N = 624) from the academic Olympians in 3 countries (USA, Germany, and Finland) to study…
Descriptors: Motivation, Foreign Countries, Talent, Productivity