Multicultural experience, idea receptiveness, and creativity

• Main Authors: LEUNG, Angela K. Y., CHIU, Chi-Yue
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: multicultural experience; receptiveness to foreign ideas; creativity; need for cognitive closure; terror management theory; motivated cultural cognition; Multicultural Psychology; Personality and Social Contexts
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1005; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2261/viewcontent/MulticulturalExperienceIdeaReceptiveness_2010.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Inspired by recent advances in creative cognition research, the authors examined in the current research some creative benefits of multicultural experiences. Study 1 showed that European American undergraduates had better creative performance immediately after being exposed to American and Chinese c...