Expanding Opportunities by Opening Your Mind: Multicultural Engagement Predicts Job Market Success Through Longitudinal Increases in Integrative Complexity

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 608-615

  Maddux, William W ^a   Bivolaru, Eliza ^a   Hafenbrack, Andrew C ^b   Tadmor, Carmit T ^c   Galinsky, Adam D ^d  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b Tel Aviv University ^*  (Singapore)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; integrative complexity; multicultural engagement; multicultural experience; professional achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901756000     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613515005     Document Type: Article

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