Domain Specificity and the Limits of Creativity Theory

By John Baer. 2012

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Eva Kyndt
2. Sameh Said‐Metwaly
3. W. Van den Noortgate
4. Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
5. Hsueh-Chih Chen
6. S. Bas
7. Ayhan Kursat Erbas
8. Linda Hsu

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
2. Sameh Said‐Metwaly
3. Eva Kyndt
4. W. Van den Noortgate
5. S. Bas
6. Ayhan Kursat Erbas
7. Linda Hsu
8. Lisa Tseng

Citations in the corpus

• Creativity.4in1: Four-Criterion Construct of Creativity (2014, background): “Likewise, perception, production, and assessment of creativity can be domain specific (see Baer, 2012, for a discussion).”
• The Importance of Domain-Specific Expertise in Creativity (2015, background): “(Ivcevic, 2007, p. 272) The correlations that have been reported in the many studies that have made exactly this comparison have tended to hover around zero (especially if variance attributable to intelligence is removed; see Baer, 2010, 2012, in press; for summaries).”
• The Contribution of Personality Traits, Motivation, Academic Risk-Taking and Metacognition to the Creative Ability in Mathematics (2015, background): “Creativity may have both general and domain-specific qualities (Amabile, 1996; Baer, 2012; Kaufman & Baer, 2004; Leikin, 2009; Milgram & Livne, 2005; Tan, 2007).”
• Benefiting from creative activity: The positive relationships between creative activity, recovery experiences, and performance-related outcomes (2014, background): “The notion that creative activity provides important resources to a person that can spill over into other life domains has received considerable attention by social and personality psychologists (Baer, 2012; Ivcevic, 2007; Kaufman & Baer, 2005; Mayer, 1999).”
• The relative influences of domain knowledge and domain-general divergent thinking on scientific creativity and mathematical creativity (2017, background): “Some researchers have even called for the development of measuring tools for domain-specific creativity based on the properties of different domains (Baer, 2012).”
• Approaches to Measuring Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review (2017, background): “First, there is an ongoing debate about the selection of the most appropriate judges and the level of expertise needed to evaluate creative products (Galati, 2015; Hickey, 2001; Kaufman & Baer, 2012; Runco, McCarthy, & Svenson, 1993).”