You-yuh Kuo (Jim)

Dr. Kuo was born in 1933 in Fuchow, Fukien, China, and educated in Taiwan with a B.A. degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 1956 and a M.A. degree from National Chengchi University in 1956. His doctoral degree was obtained from the Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, in 1967. His college teaching experiences include three years at the Department of Psychology, Bloomsburg State University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and 27 years at the Department of Educational Psychology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. During those years, he produced an impressive number of scholarly works, having written and published more than 70 articles, chapters, and books on a variety of topics in education and psychology of creativity. His book, Psychology of Creativity, sponsored by the

You-yuh Kuo

Academia Sinica in Taiwan and published by Cheng Chung Book Company was the first of itkind in China. He was the first professor in Taiwan to establish a college course on the psychology of creativity. Several of his students are currently promoting creativity in colleges, schools and business organizations in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China. He is one of the pioneers of psychology of creativity in Taiwan.

Dr. Kuo's academic and professional honors include an appointment as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, an Outstanding Pedagogy Publication Award, and an appointment as a UNESCO consultant. The following are several of his books published in Taiwan: Psychology of Artistic Creativity (National Institute for Compilation and Translation. 2001), Psychology of Creativity (3rd Ed. Cheng Chung Book Co., 2000), Creative Problem Solving Techniques (3rd Printing. Psychological Publishing Co., 2000),. The Growth and Decline of Chinese Historical Geniuses (National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1992), and Psychology of Invention (Yuan Liu Publishing Co., 1992).