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A large part of the world’s population regularly interacts and works in foreign languages. Yet, we know surprisingly little about potential effects of foreign language use on human behavior. This paper investigates the effects of foreign language use on creativity, a crucial factor for innovation. We conducted an international experimental study with 430 participants in France,Germany, and the U.S. to observe creative performance in a real-effort creativity task. More than 2300 resulting creative products were rated by an international pool of raters to measure creative performance, applying the consensual assessment technique. A between-subjects-design and pairwise comparisons across languages allow us to differentiate between foreign language effects and language-specific effects. |
