Documents

Cognitive Styles and Trustworthiness Expectations

This is a conference presentation of research on trust in relation to the Red, Blue, and Green dimensions of the Diversity Icebreaker. It was presented at the Canadian Psychological Association’s convention 2022.

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Psychological Safety, Group Diversity and Creativity

This conference presentation summaries more than 5 years of experimental designed research with Divesity Icebreaker at Hebrew University. It has been an important element to document the intervention effects of the short Diversity Icebreaker seminar in relationship to trust, psychological safety and creativity
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A process evaluation of a salutogenic intervention

Linn Slettum Bjerke and Bjørn Z. Ekelund delivered an organizational development project between 2012-14 involving 400 administrative and technical staff at one of the universities in Norway. The communication model of Diversity Icebreaker and Red, Blue, and Green categories were central throughout the whole program. This article is a scientific evaluation of the project.

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Sustainability, deep learning, and diversity

This article discusses a project in which the Diversity Icebreaker was used with junior high school pupils working in groups to solve a sustainability challenge. The groups were set up with varying degrees of diversity with regards to their Red, Blue, and Green preferences.

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Book from 2015

A collection of research articles and conference presentation papers about the Diversity Icebreaker from 2008-2014.
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