Research Blog #9

Argument and Counter-Argument



This chart shows the comparison between students who have studied abroad, students who are planning to study, and students who have not and do not plan to study abroad so that researcher can explore the relationship between the level of creative thinking and possible cognitive benefit gained from studying abroad. As a result, students who studied abroad outperformed the two groups of students who did not study abroad on both the general and culture-specific measures of creative thinking which means that studying abroad helps students to develop their complex cognitive processes and creative thinking in culture-specific and domain-general settings. A good relationship between multicultural experience and creativity gives students to increase their level of esthetics, such as art, foreign languages, and history, which is frequently cited characteristic of creative individuals. Altogether, this research shows that students who studied abroad demonstrate superior creative thinking on both a culture-specific and a domain-general measure of creative thinking compared with students who have not studied abroad.

Bibliography 
Lee, Christine S., et al. “On the Cognitive Benefits of Cultural Experience: Exploring the Relationship between Studying Abroad and Creative Thinking.” Wiley Online Library, 19 July 2012, onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/doi/full/10.1002/acp.2857.



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