R. Frank Falk

Director of Research

R. Frank Falk, Ph.D., serves as Director of Research of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development.  Dr. Falk received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota and for many years taught and served as an administrator at both the University of Denver and the University of Akron.  He has authored numerous books, monographs, chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered frequent presentations at professional meetings including NAGC, SENG and the World Council on Gifted & Talented Children.  In 2007-2008, he served as statistical consultant to the NAGC Task Force on a national study of WISC-IV performance of gifted children.  His latest publications involve the measurement of overexcitabilities in Dabrowski’s theory, including chapters summarizing the research in Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration (Mendaglio, 2008) and Living with Intensity (Daniels & Piechowski, 2009). He has conducted data analysis for hundreds of publications in all areas of giftedness and continues to assist and provide information to professionals in the field. He is currently collaborating on work identifying the relationship of brain structure to the gifted and associated characteristics with fMRI’s.