The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

In this book, some of the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' provide scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance.

K. Anders Ericsson (Edited by), Robert R. Hoffman (Edited by), Aaron Kozbelt (Edited by), A. Mark Williams (Edited by)

9781316502617, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 May 2018

984 pages, 75 b/w illus. 15 tables
24.7 x 17.4 x 4.3 cm, 1.59 kg

'A truly remarkable achievement, from the original expert on expertise: a deep, wide, and impressively complete look at the science of human excellence. If you're interested in understanding what creates great performance, you will find no better resource than this book.' Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code and The Culture Code

In this updated and expanded edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, some of the world's foremost experts on expertise share their scientific knowledge of expertise and expert performance and show how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of development, training, reasoning, knowledge, and social support. The book reviews innovative methods for measuring experts' knowledge and performance in relevant tasks. Sixteen major domains of expertise are covered, including sports, music, medicine, business, writing, and drawing, with leading researchers summarizing their knowledge about the structure and acquisition of expert skills and knowledge, and discussing future prospects. General issues that cut across most domains are reviewed in chapters on various aspects of expertise, such as general and practical intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, knowledge management, and creativity.

Part I. Introduction and Perspectives: 1. An introduction to the 2nd Edition of the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance: its development, organization, and content
2. A sociological/philosophical perspective on expertise: the acquisition of expertise through socialization
3. Re-framing expertise and its development: a lifeworld perspective
4. The evolution of expertise
5. Expertise in other non-human animals: canines as an example
Part II. Overview of Approaches to the Study of Expertise: Brief Historical Accounts of Theories and Methods
6. Studies of expertise from psychological perspectives: historical foundations and recurrent themes
7. Expert systems: a perspective from computer science
8. Developing occupational expertise through everyday work activities and interactions
9. Professionalism, science, and expert roles: a social perspective
Part III. Methods for Studying the Structure of Expertise: 10. Perception in expertise
11. Eliciting and representing the knowledge of experts
12. Capturing expert thought with protocol analysis: concurrent verbalizations of thinking during experts' performance on representative tasks
13. Methods for studying the structure of expertise: psychometric approaches
14. Studies of the activation and structural changes of the brain associated with expertise
Part IV. Methods for Studying the Acquisition and Maintenance of Expertise: 15. Collecting and assessing practice activity data: concurrent, retrospective and longitudinal approaches
16. Multidisciplinary longitudinal studies: a perspective from the field of sports
17. Using cases to understand expert performance: method and methodological triangulation
18. Historiometric methods
Part V. Domains of Expertise
Section 1. Professional Domains: 19. Expertise in medicine and surgery
20. Expertise and transportation
21. Expertise in professional design
22. Toward deliberate practice in the development of entrepreneurial expertise: the anatomy of the effectual ask
23. Professional writing expertise
24. Expertise and expert performance in teaching
25. Expert professional judgments and 'naturalistic decision making'
26. Decision making skill: from intelligence to numeracy and expertise
27. What makes an expert team? A decade of research
Section 2. Arts, Sports, Games and Other Types of Expertise: 28. Expertise in music
29. Brain changes associated with acquisition of musical expertise
30. Expertise in drawing
31. Expertise in chess
32. Mathematical expertise
33. Expertise in L2 vocabulary
34. Expertise in sport: specificity, plasticity and adaptability in high-performance athletes
Part VI. Generalizable Mechanisms Mediating Types of Expertise
35. Superior anticipation
36. Superior working memory in experts
37. Expertise and situation awareness
Part VII. General Issues and Theoretical Frameworks
38. The differential influence of experience, practice, and deliberate practice on the development of superior individual performance of experts
39. Practical intelligence and tacit knowledge: an ecological view of expertise
40. Cognitive load and expertise reversal
41. Expertise and structured imagination in creative thinking: reconsideration of an old question
42. Aging and expertise.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychology [JM]