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Type 1 Research: Phenomenology, Definition, Classification, and Foundation

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This chapter introduces type 1 research which tackles the immediate phenomenology of talent and examines the nature and classification of talents and related domains; the neurophysiological, the sociocultural, and the cognitive-affective-conative foundations; and manifestations of talents across major phases of talent development (i.e., the foundational or formative phase, the transitional phase, and the advanced phase). The purpose of type 1 research is to lay the foundations for ensuing research that seeks empirically grounded knowledge of who are talented and how they become so through talent development. Importantly, the chapter tries to consider those foundational issues together with three broad perspectives on talent development: the giftedness and talent perspective, the expertise perspective, and the creative productivity perspective. These perspectives yield diverse assumptions about talent’s nature and development, leading to distinct research methods.

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Dai, D.Y. (2023). Type 1 Research: Phenomenology, Definition, Classification, and Foundation. In: Talent Development from the Perspective of Developmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46205-4_4

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