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Intercultural Experience And Creativity, Chi-Ying Cheng, Yi Wen Tan
Intercultural Experience And Creativity, Chi-Ying Cheng, Yi Wen Tan
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Creativity, commonly defined as a production of novel and useful ideas, has long been considered as a type of individual difference that is highly associated with personality traits and intellectual intelligence, which cannot be changed easily. Recently, it has been demonstrated that creativity can occur as a result of cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes that are driven by intercultural experiences, which can be acquired. In line with the creative cognition approach, individuals with direct intercultural experiences exhibit higher individual creativity. Specifically, those who adopt biculturalism as their acculturation strategy and develop a high level of integration between their bicultural identities …