Conclusions: Twenty-five years ago, Ericsson and colleagues proposed their influential deliberate practice view of expertise. Though an influential account of

Conclusions: Twenty-five years ago, Ericsson and colleagues proposed their influential deliberate practice view of expertise. Though an influential account of expertise, this view is inadequate to explain the body of empirical evidence that has since accumulated. Moving ahead, we believe that the overarching goal of expertise research should be to develop and test theories of expertise that take into account all potentially relevant explanatory constructs. This includes different forms of experience, as well as basic human traits; it also includes task and situational factors, such as task complexity and performance pressure. This research promises to increase theoretical understanding of the origins of expertise and provide scientific grounding for interventions aimed at accelerating the acquisition of expertise. For example, it may one day be possible to use information about people’s genotypes to tailor musical or professional training, as is already being done in sports. This type of intervention promises to help people realize their potential for acquiring expertise. Non paywall related link to 2016 paper: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:bdb69b97-5c72-4f0f-a268-5942d7641d88/Hambrick.PLM.2016.pdf http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:bdb69b97-5c72-4f0f-a26... Excerpt: Ericsson’s view has inspired a great deal of research, as well as popular books, such as Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else6 and The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born, It’s Grown. Here’s How.7 Here, however, we argue that Ericsson’s view is inadequate as a theoretical account of expertise, both in terms of its ability to account for relevant findings and its specification of key concepts. More generally, we argue that the nature versus nurture debate in research on expertise is over—or certainly should be, as it has been for decades in other areas of research.8 We end by describing a multifactorial framework for research on expertise.