Interactive Effects of Multicultural Experiences and Openness to Experience on Creativity
Extensiveness of multicultural experiences and Openness to Experience were used to predict European American undergraduates' performance on two measures of creative potential: (a) generation of unusual uses of garbage bags and (b) retrieval of nonprototypical or normatively inaccessible exempla...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2008
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/539 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1538/viewcontent/Interactive_Effects_of_Multicultural_Experiences_2008.pdf |
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| Institution: | Singapore Management University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Extensiveness of multicultural experiences and Openness to Experience were used to predict European American undergraduates' performance on two measures of creative potential: (a) generation of unusual uses of garbage bags and (b) retrieval of nonprototypical or normatively inaccessible exemplars in the conceptual domain of occupation. The results showed that having extensive multicultural experiences predicted better performance on both measures of creative potential only among participants who were open to experience. Among those who were not open, having more extensive multicultural experiences was associated with a lower level of creative potential. Implications of these findings for promoting creativity in schools are discussed. |
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