How comparatively well-off we feel as children affects our later appetite for interpersonal risk taking in the workplace. Authors: Tom Geraghty & Jade Garratt, Psychsafety.com Updated September 2026: we’ve corrected the statistical labels (the figures previously shown as p-values were correlation
Safety and the Myth of Self-Reliance There are many myths that we Americans embrace, and the myth of triumphant self-reliance isin the top five. Let’s list our heroes: lone tycoons, solo cops, misunderstood dreamers, lone and desperateparents; each is resourceful,
Part 1: The Power and Peril of Naming Updated September 2026: we now quote Amy Edmondson’s 1999 definition of psychological safety exactly, and we’ve corrected when crew resource management began. Over the past five years of our work in psychological
“Sociological” Safety By Tom Geraghty The term psychological safety has been in use since Carl Rogers’ work in the 1950s and was applied to organisational contexts by Schein and Bennis (among others) in the 1960s. Since Amy Edmondson’s influential research
