Works
- The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance, Psychological Review (with Ralf T. Krampe and Clemens Tesch-Römer), 1993
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A Florida State University psychologist of expertise who argued that expert performance comes chiefly from deliberate practice: effortful work on specific weaknesses, with feedback, sustained over years.
Caveat: Later meta-analyses found that accumulated practice explains a smaller share of differences in skill than the 1993 paper implied, and how large its role is remains debated.