Living abroad raises insight-creativity performance from 42 to 60 percent

Evidence

In this initial study, we found a significant correlation between the amount of time MBA students at the Kellogg School of Management had spent living abroad and whether they came up with the idea to use the box of tacks as a candleholder (Maddux & Galinsky, 2009, study 1). In fact, when we separated the results out and compared the performance of those who had lived abroad before and those who had not, we found that 60% of students who had previously lived abroad solved the problem correctly, whereas only 42% of students who had not lived abroad figured out the correct and creative solution. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2223