作者
Angela Ka-yee Leung, William W Maddux, Adam D Galinsky, Chi-yue Chiu
发表日期
2008/4
期刊
American Psychologist
卷号
63
期号
3
页码范围
169-181
出版商
American Psychological Association
简介
Many practices aimed at cultivating multicultural competence in educational and organizational settings (eg, exchange programs, diversity education in college, diversity management at work) assume that multicultural experience fosters creativity. In line with this assumption, the research reported in this article is the first to empirically demonstrate that exposure to multiple cultures in and of itself can enhance creativity. Overall, the authors found that extensiveness of multicultural experiences was positively related to both creative performance (insight learning, remote association, and idea generation) and creativity-supporting cognitive processes (retrieval of unconventional knowledge, recruitment of ideas from unfamiliar cultures for creative idea expansion). Furthermore, their studies showed that the serendipitous creative benefits resulting from multicultural experiences may depend on the extent to which …
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