Dr. Cat Hicks
🚨 new....kind of new??? .... developer science from me! 🚨
I have significantly updated the preprint manuscript for our AI Skill Threat study: it now includes a richly descriptive (I hope) overview of identity threat, has integrated many fresh references and sources of wisdom about developers since our first rough draft report, and more fully explicates our theory for how and why learning & belonging help mitigate threat experiences for developers
Dr. Cat Hicks
In my quest to advocate for the importance of seeing developers as WHOLE people, with WHOLE psychologies (not just brains in jars), I wrote:
"Feeling that an important identity is threatened is recognized as a highly impactful experience which can shape human behavior, and which takes diverse forms. For instance, in being categorized against one’s will, in feeling one’s identity-based value being undermined, or in experiencing threats to the acceptance or distinctiveness of one’s identity"
Dr. Cat Hicks
Why read this? Reflected in the new title: because the structure of developers' beliefs about software development ability impacts their psychological resilience during rapid technology shift.
To my knowledge while this connection has been lightly speculated in a few works, this is the first empirical software research that directly set out to characterize how a multidimensional network of ability beliefs can operate here, drawing from the psychological sciences, to change developer experience
Dr. Cat Hicks
And why care about that? Well, because they're powerful....AND changeable. Many factors that have been proposed as key factors in developer experience, or as correlates of development outcomes, do NOT show promise as intervention targets. Our work tests factors that do: ability beliefs are malleable and have been the subject of many promising interventions
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