Is Creativity Domain Specific

By John Baer. 2010

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering

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Creative personality, opportunity recognition and the tendency to start businesses: A study of their genetic predispositions (2015, background): “…and motivations that can be productively deployed in any domain – or, conversely, whether the skills, aptitudes, traits, propensities andmotivations that lead to creative performance vary from domain to domain – is a key question in creativity research and theory” (Baer, 2010, p. 321).”
The Assessment of Creativity: An Investment-Based Approach (2012, background): “This research showed creative performance to be moderately domain-specific, and to be predicted by the combination of resources specified by the theory (see Baer, 2010; Sternberg, 2009).”
Personal factors of creativity: A second order meta-analysis (2015, background): “Creativity can be analyzed as a peronal attribute, a process, a product, and as the context which nables it (Baer, 2010).”
Measuring Functional Creativity: Non‐Expert Raters and the Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale (2012, background): “Baer (2010) discusses this issue in the context of the debate on domain specificity and creativity and questions the validity of replacing expert judges with novices, citing Chen, Himsel, Kasof, Greenberger and Dmitreiva (2006) to highlight the need for “…data showing that expert raters in a domain…”
Domain Specificity and the Limits of Creativity Theory (2012, background): “The level of creative polymaths actually observed—they are indeed uncommon, but not unheard of—is precisely what domain-specificity theory predicts (Kaufman, Beghetto, Baer, & Ivcevic, 2010b; Kaufman, Beghetto, & Baer, 2010a).”
How Divergent Thinking Tests Mislead Us: Are the Torrance Tests Still Relevant in the 21st Century? The Division 10 Debate (2011, background): “I have presented the evidence for domain specificity many places already (e.g., Baer, 1993; Baer, 1994; Baer, 1998; Baer, 2010; Baer & Kaufman, 2005; Kaufman & Baer, 2005) and won’t do so in detail here, but the thrust of it is that if you measure actual creative performances of groups of people…”
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 relative influences of domain knowledge and domain-general divergent thinking on scientific creativity and mathematical creativity (2017, background): “MARK knowledge and creative thinking skills, dispositions or tendencies (Baer, 2010).”