ABSTRACT
Many of the contributors made specific reference to an arts/science distinction in the personality traits, skills, or working styles of creative people (e.g., Cropley & Cropley, chap. 10; Simonton, chap. 8; Zimmerman, chap. 4; Feist, chap. 7). This seemed to be a kind of first pass at distinguishing domain-specific and general, domain-transcending factors influencing creative performance. The authors of at least two of the chapters (Milgram & Livne, chap. 11; Piirto, chap. 1) cast this distinction in a way that fits nicely with Amabile’s (1983, 1996) componential framework, which includes general creativity-relevant skills and domain-specific skills as separate classes of
skills that influence creative performance (in addition to a third compo-nent, task motivation, discussed later in this chap.).
