Integrating home and host cultural identities boosts creative performance.

Evidence

In particular, we found that those who are able to successfully integrate the identity of their host or foreign culture, while at the same time also retaining their home or native culture identity, may be particularly well positioned to realize creative and other professional benefits. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2250

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the ingroup/outgroup frame from the Allport thread: bicultural identity integration is a mechanism whereby dual identity, not mere category membership, drives advantage.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2250