Recalling multicultural adaptation only boosts creativity in people who actually lived abroad.

Evidence

To test whether living abroad is necessary for recalling multicultural learning to facilitate creativity, experiment 3 included participants who had and had not lived abroad. Overall, we predicted enhanced creativity for participants primed with the functional multicultural learning experience compared to those primed with the nonfunctional multicultural learning experience, but only for participants who had previously lived abroad. This is indeed what we found: Kellogg MBAs were more likely to solve the Duncker candle problem when primed with the functional multicultural learning experience, but only if they had previously lived abroad, presumably because such individuals were less likely to have functional multicultural learning experiences to mentally access: there was no creative difference across conditions for participants who had not lived abroad (Maddux et al., 2010, experiment 3). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2246

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prejudice-psychology thread: this is an ingroup heuristic-access claim — biographical events are retrieved, not just semantic primes.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2246