SMU Assistant Professor of Psychology Cheng Chi-Ying, together with University of Michigan's Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Fiona Lee, have published a research paper titled "Connecting the Dots Within: Creative Performance and Identity Integration". The paper argues that ethnic minorities, and women in male-dominated professions, are most creative when they have found a way to believe that their “multiple and conflicting social identities are compatible.”
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