Prospect Theory shows that our voice calculus tends to shift towards the negative.
https://psychsafety.com/prospect-theory-and-psychological-safety/
tom_geraghty
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Experimentalist. Ecologist. Safety Culture @Iterum (psychsafety.com)
Studying Masters in Global Health.
Natural habitat: forests & mountains. He/him. Always be kind.
Neuroscience makes claims feel more credible — even when it adds nothing.
The SANE effect: The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
The danger isn’t that we’ll believe nonsense.
It’s that weak ideas get a free pass when they sound neurosciency enough. 🧠
Learning Teams focus on goldilocks events:
not the most severe, but those with the greatest learning potential.
That’s where everyday adaptations become visible.
“Busywork is usually not laziness; more often it’s status-seeking under uncertainty and scarcity.”
ST.R.E.A.M: Status Rules Everything Around Me
https://psychsafety.com/st-r-e-a-m-status-rules-everything-around-me/
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayHere's a prime bit of hypocrisy:
Toby Young's Free Speech Union has hired David Rose (ex-Daily Mail) to track down who is funding Hope Not Hate (the anti-fascist group)...
And at the same time the FSU has just been granted a High Court injunction banning Bash Back from publicising the details of FSU's donors (which FSU does not disclose) which they allegedly gained illicitly. Anyone breaching the injunction could be jailed....
Two tier free speech?
h/t The New World
Jonathan Yu"Normalisation of deviance occurs when people within an organisation become so desensitised to the deviant practice that it no longer feels wrong. This doesn’t happen overnight – it builds up over years and becomes part of the organisational culture, the substrate, usually in response to time or budget pressures, or simply a need to keep the boss happy."
https://psychsafety.com/normalisation-of-deviance/ by @tom_geraghty via Psych Safety
The Challenger Disaster: Normalisation of Deviance
The Challenger Disaster: AKA The Normalisation of Risk In previous articles we’ve differentiated error into three types: slips and lapses, mistakes, and violations. This time, we’re exploring a certain type of violation called the “normalisation of deviance”, a term coined […]
“Just adopt a growth mindset” can sound positive…
…but when it’s used to push people harder or ignore unsafe systems, it becomes coercive.
A sharp, ethical take from Jade Garratt:
👉 psychsafety.com/growth-mindset
Gerry McGovernSo Big Tech has started undressing our children so as to make even more profit off them.
Where are the Irish, UK and USA governments? An Irish Minister blames users. While the EU is complaining about Twitter on Twitter.
Big Tech own our governments. They own our politicians.
It's all about innovation and progress. Here we are having our children stripped of their rights and clothes to be sold for Big Tech profit. Here we are, with women facing an onslaught of Big Tech misogyny.
Toxic men.
We’re not always measuring what matters.
Often, we’re measuring what we can… and making it matter.
The Streetlight Effect in organisations: looking where the light is, not where the truth lives.
Our Psych Safety Book List 2025 isn’t a “best of”.
It’s six books that changed how we think about power, systems, people & complexity — many recommended by the community.
Eclectic by design. 📚
