Cooperative Criticism: When Criticism Enhances Creativity in Brainstorming and Negotiation

The second and third authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically. For helpful advice and comments, the authors thank Lotte Bailyn, Emilio Castilla, Katherine Curhan, Hillary Elfenbein, Francesca Gino, Lindred Greer, Jessica Kennedy, Richard Landers, Ray Reagans, John Van Maanen, Basima Tewfik, Jennifer Walker, and members of MIT Sloan’s B-Lab. For research assistance, the authors thank Christopher Au, Olivia Borge, Laura Delgado, Thayer Donham, Valkyrie Felso, Stéphane Francioli, Manisha Gadia, Victoria Gregory, Haley Heard, Descartes Holland, Anna Kazlauskas, Minjee Kim, Sita Magnuson, Mike Owu, Anne Schwieger, Alla Volkova, and Helen Yap.