Cultural threats in culturally mixed encounters hamper creative performance for individuals with lower openness to experience

• Main Authors: CHEN, Xia, LEUNG, Angela K. Y., YANG, Daniel Y. J., CHIU, Chi-yue, LI, Zhong-quan, CHENG, Shirley Y. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: creativity; cultural threat; culture mixing; openness to experience; Multicultural Psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2042; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3299/viewcontent/CulturalThreatsMixedEncountersCreativePerf_2016_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Past research has examined independently how openness to experience, as a personality trait, and the situational threat triggered by a foreign cultural encounter affect the emergence of creative benefits from a culture-mixing experience. The present research provides the first evidence for the inter...