Cues to gender and racial identity reduce creativity in diverse social networks.

ABSTRACT: The characteristics of social partners have long been hypothesized as influential in guiding group interactions. Understanding how demographic cues impact networks of creative collaborators is critical for elevating creative performances therein. We conducted a randomized experiment to investigate how the knowledge of peers' gender and racial identities distorts people's connection patterns and the resulting creative outcomes in a dynamic social network. Consistent with prior work, we found that creative inspiration links are primarily formed with top idea-generators. However, when gender and racial identities are known, not only is there (1) an increase of [Formula: see text] in the odds of same-gender connections to persist (but not for same-race connections), but (2) the semantic simila

SUBMITTER: Baten RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8119436 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature