In a foundational field study, team psychological safety was associated with learning behavior in work teams.

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Edmondson studied 51 manufacturing work teams using a multimethod field design and found team psychological safety associated with learning behavior; learning behavior in turn mediated the relationship between psychological safety and performance in the model.

The study does not establish that psychological safety alone causes team performance, that all disagreement is safe or useful, or that a single leader determines the team’s entire interpersonal climate.

The public claim is narrower than the chapter’s broader Human OS interpretation of state becoming environmental.

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