Past foreign experience alone does not produce creative benefit without identity integration.

Evidence

In one study, we queried a group of INSEAD MBAs, all of whom had previously lived abroad, about their experiences in different countries, in particular the extent to which they felt they identified with both their home culture and the culture in which they lived abroad. Later, we asked them to do the unusual uses test by thinking of as many creative uses for a brick as possible within 2 minutes (Guilford, 1950). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2250

Categorization

• QUESTION: Implies a surprising boundary condition: spending time abroad is necessary but not sufficient; what matters is the identity work of integration. Worth probing whether the same integration mechanism shows up in studies of prejudice reduction among people with cross-group contact.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2250