Enhancing creative performance through radical interdisciplinarity: a commentary on Friedlander’s (2024) The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise

Waddell, G. (2026) Enhancing creative performance through radical interdisciplinarity: a commentary on Friedlander’s (2024) The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise. Journal of Expertise, 8 (4) pp. 279-282. ISSN 2573-2773 (online)

Abstract

In an era of increasing knowledge, specialisation, and human achievement, it can be easy to overlook the commonalities across performance domains and those who perform. The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise (Friedlander, 2024) makes a significant contribution to a field of expertise research “disproportionately fixated on chess, music, and sports” (p. xi) by considering a much broader realm of human performance as far ranging as the surgical theatre, boardroom, classroom, stage, and home. The field of Performance Science similarly embraces such radical interdisciplinarity to accelerate the understanding, development, and execution of expert practice.

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Official URL:	https://www.journalofexpertise.org/articles/volume...
Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Commentary, performance, expertise, performance science, interdisciplinarity
Subjects:	Performance Science
Division:	Performance Science
Depositing User:	Dr George Waddell
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2026 09:32
Last Modified:	21 Jan 2026 09:32
URI:	https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2689

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