Biculturalism and Cognitive Complexity

By Verónica Benet‐Martínez, Fiona Lee, Janxin Leu. 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Multicultural Experience, Idea Receptiveness, and Creativity (2010, background): “…such cognitive processes over time, individuals with rich multicultural experiences may become more cognitively complex and are therefore more capable of organizing their received cultural representations from multiple interpretative frames (Benet-Martinez et al., 2006; Gutierrez & Sameroff, 1990).”
Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Cultural Frame Switching (2006, background): “When Benet-Martínez, Lee, and Leu (2006) asked Chinese American biculturals to describe the Chinese and American primes, participants mostly wrote positive descriptions.”
Multicultural Employees: A Framework for Understanding How They Contribute to Organizations (2013, background): “example, multiculturals had higher cognitive complexity when talking about cultures, but not about landscapes (Benet-Martínez et al., 2006); they had higher creativity when developing”
On the Cognitive Benefits of Cultural Experience: Exploring the Relationship between Studying Abroad and Creative Thinking (2012, background): “Multicultural experiences involve the accumulation and integration of learned routines and conventional knowledge from a new culture, as well as practice mentally set switching between different cultural worldviews (Benet-Martinez et al., 2006; Leung & Chiu, 2010; Tadmor & Tetlock, 2006).”
How Dual-Identity Processes Foster Creativity (2014, background): “…remained in conflict wrote more dense and complex descriptions of cultures compared with those who did not think their identities were in conflict (Benet-Martínez et al., 2006, Study 2), suggesting that perceived cultural distance, or inconsistency between one’s two identities, forces individuals…”