AUTHOR=Subotnik Rena Faye , Olszewski-Kubilius Paula , Worrell Frank C. 

TITLE=Environmental Factors and Personal Characteristics Interact to Yield High Performance in Domains

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02804

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02804

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Outstanding human performance continues to intrigue experts and the public; however, the focus is often on the individual performer or producer with scant attention given to the additive part played by circumstances and contexts. Using general theories of development (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">Bronfenbrenner, 1977</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">1986</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">2005</xref>;<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref24">Sameroff, 2010</xref>) and talent development paradigms (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref37">Ziegler, 2005</xref>;<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">Dai, 2010</xref>;<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref28">Subotnik et al., 2011</xref>), we examined the interaction of environmental and individual factors on trajectories of high performance within and across varied domains. Public and scholarly awareness of the role played by environments places greater responsibility on education and other societal systems to support talents in varied domains, and to promote evidence of talents’ malleability and potential for development.</p>