Edge Effect

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

There is great comfort in the familiar. It's one reason humans often flock to other people who share the same interests, laugh at the same jokes, hold the same political views. But familiar ground may not be the best place to cultivate creativity. Researchers have found that people with deep connections to those from other countries and cultures often see benefits in terms of their creative output. This week, we revisit a favorite 2018 episode about the powerful connection between the ideas we dream up and the people who surround us, and what it really takes to think outside the box.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantu.
0:02.9	In 2011, Richard Freeman was working on a project.
0:06.9	He was studying the way groups of people work together,
0:09.9	specifically how scientists work together.
0:13.6	Richard, who's a Harvard economics professor,
0:16.1	noticed something intriguing.
0:18.3	Scientists in the United States seem to stick to their own kind.
0:22.9	You'd see Chinese folk concentrated in one lab,
0:28.4	Indian folk concentrated in another lab,
0:32.3	Europeans of different groups,
0:35.0	associating more with their compatriots.
0:38.8	This was not surprising.
0:40.4	You see this kind of clustering in lots of workplaces.
0:43.9	But Richard thought, science ought to be different.
0:47.2	It general people who are more alike,
0:50.2	are likely to think more alike,
0:53.2	and one of the things that gives a kick to science
0:56.6	and scientific productivity is that you get people
1:00.3	with somewhat different views,
1:02.0	different perspectives coming together.
1:07.5	This assertion has long been debated.
1:10.3	Some people say, teams with lots of different perspectives
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