Multicultural Experience Enhances Creativity

摘要: Many practices aimed at cultivating multicultural competence in educational and organizational settings (e.g., exchange programs, diversity education college, management work) assume that experience fosters creativity. In line with this assumption, the research reported article is first to empirically demonstrate exposure multiple cultures of itself can enhance Overall, authors found extensiveness experiences was positively related both creative performance (insight learning, remote association, idea generation) creativity-supporting cognitive processes (retrieval unconventional knowledge, recruitment ideas from unfamiliar for expansion). Furthermore, their studies showed serendipitous benefits resulting may depend on extent which individuals open themselves foreign cultures, creativity facilitated contexts deemphasize need firm answers or existential concerns. The discuss implications findings promoting increasingly global learning work environments.