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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:36:32 JST Cat Hicks

   I wrote a much longer thread about this on bsky but thought I would share over here that if you are struggling to wrap your head around seeing phrases like "masculine energy" in tech, I have two psychology resources to recommend (have also written with citations to both these researchers in my own work) ⏬

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:40:28 JST Cat Hicks

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     The other -- you know I'm always going to recommend Cheryan! -- it's Cheryan & Markus (2022): Masculine Defaults: Identifying and Mitigating Hidden Cultural Biases

     https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2020-59614-001.pdf

     Valerie Aurora repeated this.
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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:40:28 JST Rocketman

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     @grimalkina this is surprisingly readable!

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:40:29 JST Cat Hicks

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     One is Vial et al. (2022): An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures

     "an emphasis on brilliance has a negative effect on gender diversity because it fosters a workplace climate in which a masculine-coded, competition-based style of interpersonal interaction is perceived to be dominant"

     https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976211044133

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:44:48 JST Rocketman

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     @grimalkina Hehe, thanks!

     I’ll admit to being a little scarred, after being trained mainly on German sociology papers written in the 1970s.

     They all used purposefully impenetrable jargon, just to show off how smart they were.

     Masculine energy, indeed. (I don’t recall many of the authors being female.)

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:44:49 JST Cat Hicks

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     • Rocketman

     @slothrop I try not to let you guys down

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 05:54:47 JST Cat Hicks

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     You may be thinking to yourself wow I wonder if anyone has ever directly studied brilliance beliefs on software teams and empirically measured them at scale with a couple thousand real developers & 700+ leaders and produced evidence about how brilliance beliefs & contest cultures are associated with lower team effectiveness and lower developer productivity, well 💁♀️💁♀️💁♀️

     hit your girl up I did All That And More and I consult if your org needs LESS of this "energy"

     https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5