Beyond Individual Creativity: The Superadditive Benefits of Multicultural Experience for Collective Creativity in Culturally Diverse Teams

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 384-392

  Tadmor, Carmit T ^a   Satterstrom, Patricia ^b   Jang, Sujin ^b   Polzer, Jeffrey T ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

brainstorming; creativity; culture and cognition; multiculturalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858220873     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022111435259     Document Type: Article

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