Clinical psychologist Dr. Joey Lawrence identifies seven common traits and challenges associated with gifted individuals, including a tendency to question authority, unconventional thinking, high sensitivity, strong moral convictions, a quest for the ultimate truth, self-doubt about their giftedness, and a desire not to appear arrogant in their thinking.
The work of Michael Woodley, a Briton who was cited by the teenager who killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, included pseudoscientific theories that have been used to justify racism.