Multicultural Experience, Idea Receptiveness, and Creativity

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 723-741

  Leung, Angela Ka yee ^a   Chiu, Chi Yue ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

creativity; motivated cultural cognition; multicultural experience; need for cognitive closure; receptiveness to foreign ideas; terror management theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953196298     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022110361707     Document Type: Article

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