Living abroad raises the likelihood of solving insight problems requiring reframing.

Evidence

Seeing problems from multiple perspectives is exactly the sort of insight that was necessary to solve the Duncker candle problem used in several of our studies; the insight that a box of tacks could be used for a purpose it is not typically intended for (a candleholder) is more likely to occur if individuals had lived abroad. The same sort of insight, that money is not the only way to come to a deal in a negotiation over the sale price of a gas station, was also more likely to occur for those who had lived abroad (Maddux & Galinsky, 2009, study 2). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2264

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing thread on how experiential viewpoint multiplicity changes cognition — a mechanism-level analog to the ingroup/outgroup perspective-taking theme from the Allport reassessment.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2264