Reactivating living-abroad memories raises creative associational thinking.

Evidence

As predicted, we found that participants who had been primed to recall having lived abroad solved more RAT answers correctly than those who recalled and wrote about other types of experiences, including traveling abroad (Maddux & Galinsky, 2009, study 3). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2227

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the cognitive residue of adaptation — why recalling an overseas chapter briefly reopens associative thinking.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2227