Syntes: Hambrick et al. (2014) — the reanalysis of chess and music that started the "practice is not enough" debate

Källa: Hambrick, D. Z., Oswald, F. L., Altmann, E. M., Meinz, E. J., Gobet, F. & Campitelli, G. (2014). Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?. Intelligence 45, 34–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2013.04.001

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• [abstract] Revisits Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer (1993), who concluded deliberate practice could give "a sufficient account" of exceptional performance.
• [abstract] Shows that deliberate practice is not sufficient to explain individual differences in performance in chess and music, the two most widely studied domains in expertise research.
• [abstract] Calls for theories that take into account as many potentially relevant explanatory constructs as possible.

Limits

• [assessment] Abstract only; the share of variance explained in each domain is not stated in the abstract, so no numbers are quoted here. Same research group as Macnamara, Hambrick & Oswald 2014, already in the library.

Why it is in the library

The classic paper C16 descends from, and the one Ericsson's later replies (Ericsson & Harwell 2019, already in the library) answer; the library cited it only inside other full texts.

Added 2026-10-25 by the project (weekly source sweep, kind: old; read: abstract). [abstract] = from the published abstract; [full text] = read in the full text; [assessment] = the project's own assessment.