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Fruitless polarities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 miska@cicero.uchicago.edu

Abstract

Clear evidence of large individual differences in children's performance in talent areas can be explained either in terms of innate gifts (the “talent account”) or in terms of early exposure (the “no talent account” proposed by Howe et al.). At this point, there is no conclusive support for either account, and it is doubtful that talent could be explained exclusively by only one of them.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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