The Gerontologist, Vol 30, Issue 5 626-631, Copyright © 1990 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Creativity in the later years: optimistic prospects for achievement

DK Simonton
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616.

Despite the apparent decline in productivity in the final years of life, seven considerations suggest a far more favorable outlook: the actual magnitude of the age decrement; the role of extrinsic influences; the contingency on career age; the impact of individual differences in creative potential; the interdisciplinary variation in the age curves; the virtual absence of an age decrement on a contribution-for-contribution basis; and the resurgence of creativity in the form of the swan-song phenomenon.

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