2000_Piechowski Transpersonal Knowledge
In this paper, presented at the Fifth Biennial Henry B. & Jocelyn Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development in May 2000, Piechowski examines childhood spiritual experiences as evidence of transpersonal knowledge. Drawing on Robinson’s study of 362 childhood spiritual experiences, Hoffman’s research on childhood spiritual encounters, and other investigations, Piechowski argues that children spontaneously […]
2024_Piechowski_Setting the Record Straight
This is a strange case where one author criticizes another for the exact opposite of what that author said. References are cited but never a single quotation to support the misguided criticism. The aim of this paper is to set the record straight. In particular, Piechowski never suggested that the first two levels be dropped […]
1982_Self-Actualization Profile of Eleanor Roosevelt
Piechowski and Tyska present a detailed case study of Eleanor Roosevelt as a self-actualizing individual, following Piechowski’s (1978) study of Saint-Exupéry. Analysis of 197 biographical statements produced a self-actualization profile strikingly similar to Saint-Exupéry’s, despite their representing Maslow’s two proposed types—the nontranscending “doer” and the transcending “seer.” The study identified two new traits not in […]
1981_Gage, Morse & Piechowski
According to the theory of positive disintegration there are distinct levels of emotional and personality development that are not tied to specific chronological ages. The present study sought (a) to develop a set of methods for assessing a person’s developmental level, and (b) to assess the convergent and discriminant validity of the methods. Over a […]
2003_From William James to Maslow and Dabrowski
This chapter introduces theoretical bridges between Maslow’s construct of self-actualization, Dąbrowski’s theory of emotional development, Bandura’s model of the self-system, and Gardner’s concept of intrapersonal intelligence. Piechowski argues that self-actualization fits into Level IV of Dąbrowski’s five levels of development, and that Bandura’s self-system furnishes the component processes of self-evaluation that Dąbrowski’s theory gains its […]
1981_Two Types of Emotional Overexcitability: Conserving and Transforming
Robert and Piechowski reanalyzed OE questionnaire responses from Lysy’s (1979) study to operationalize the distinction between conserving and transforming forms of emotional overexcitability. They developed subcategories of emotional and intellectual OE and found that discriminant analysis using these subcategories correctly classified 100% of subjects. The study represents the first attempt to empirically differentiate conserving and […]
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2002_Piechowski_Experiencing in a Higher Key
Piechowski introduces Dąbrowski’s theory to a gifted education audience, presenting the five overexcitabilities as the foundation of developmental potential and offering practical guidance for accepting and accommodating intensities in children. The article illustrates multilevelness through adolescent responses to the Overexcitability Questionnaire, including a case showing the shift from egocentric self-fulfillment to moral conflict, and draws […]
1989_Piechowski_DP and the Growth of the Self
Piechowski, M. M. (1989). Developmental potential and the growth of the self. In J. VanTassel-Baska & P. Olszewski-Kubilius (Eds.), Patterns of influence on gifted learners: The home, the school, and the self (pp. 87-101). Teachers College Press.
1993_”Origins” Without Origins_Exceptional Abilities Explained Away
Book review by MMP from Creativity Research Journal. The book reviewed was The Origins of Exceptional Abilities by Michael J. A. Howe (1990).