Could Steven Spielberg Manage the Yankees?: Creative Thinking in Different Domains

Could Steven Spielberg Manage the Yankees?: Creative Thinking in Different Domains

Few genius-level creators have achieved such success in more than a single domain, but that may be because of the extensive time it takes to prepare for high-level performance in any domain. Some self-report and personality studies of more "garden-variety" creativity suggest domain general factors that influence creativity in all domains, while performance assessments of creativity in different domains generally find little or no evidence of such general factors. This discrepancy is explained by arguing that people's implicit conceptions of creativity may often contain content general creativity-relevant factors, the actual cognitive mechanisms underlying creative performance - with the likely exception of g - are domain specific.