{"id":39718,"date":"2015-01-28T02:22:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T02:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39718"},"modified":"2015-01-28T20:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:35:54","slug":"thinking-outside-the-box-multiple-identity-mind-sets-affect-creative-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39718","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Outside the Box: Multiple Identity Mind-Sets Affect Creative Problem Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1948550614568866\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Thinking Outside the Box: Multiple Identity Mind-Sets Affect Creative Problem Solving<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spp.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Psychological and Personality Science<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online before print: 2015-01-27<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1948550614568866\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1948550614568866<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csrpc.uchicago.edu\/people\/fellows\/sarah_gaither\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah E. Gaither<\/strong><\/a>, Provost&#8217;s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar<br \/>\n<em>University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/psychology\/remedioslab\/people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jessica D. Remedios<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psych.rutgers.edu\/faculty-profiles-a-contacts\/112-diana-sanchez\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Diana T. Sanchez<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ase.tufts.edu\/psychology\/sommersLab\/people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samuel R. Sommers<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rigid thinking is associated with less creativity, suggesting that priming a flexible mind-set should boost creative thought. In three studies, we investigate whether <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Priming_(psychology)\" target=\"_blank\">priming<\/a> multiple social identities predicts more creativity in domains unrelated to social identity. Study 1 asked monoracial and multiracial participants to write about their racial identities before assessing creativity. Priming a multiracial\u2019s racial identity led to greater creativity compared to a no-prime control. Priming a monoracial\u2019s racial identity did not affect creativity. Study 2 showed that reminding monoracials that they, too, have multiple identities increased creativity. Study 3 replicated this effect and demonstrated that priming a multiracial identity for monoracials did not affect creativity. These results are the first to investigate the association between flexible identities and flexible thinking, highlighting the potential for identity versatility to predict cognitive differences between individuals who have singular versus multifaceted views of their social selves.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/spp.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2015\/01\/27\/1948550614568866.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking Outside the Box: Multiple Identity Mind-Sets Affect Creative Problem Solving Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2015-01-27 DOI: 10.1177\/1948550614568866 Sarah E. Gaither, Provost&#8217;s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Jessica D. Remedios, Assistant Professor of Psychology Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[286,274,626,15080,279,13298,11816,9692,18778],"class_list":["post-39718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-diana-sanchez","tag-diana-t-sanchez","tag-jessica-d-remedios","tag-jessica-remedios","tag-samuel-r-sommers","tag-samuel-sommers","tag-sarah-e-gaither","tag-sarah-gaither","tag-social-psychological-and-personality-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}