The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

  • Associative barriers are responsible for inhibiting creativity…  Creative minds tend to make unusual associations (1) – page 40 3
  • People fluent in multiple languages tend to exhibit more creativity (2) – page 47 4
  • In every instance, the student liked the stranger more if they showed similarity in attitudes (3) – page 80 6
  • When people brainstormed individually, they generated more original ideas than groups (4) – page 109 8

References

  1. THe assicate basis of the creative process
  2. The creative skills of culturally and linguistically diverse gifted students, Creative thinking abilities in mexican youth
  3. Interpersonal attraction and attitude similarity
  4. Productivity loss in brinstorming groups towar ht esolution of a riddle