ok so have you ever opened a conference website, scrolled down a lineup of speakers and shots from the conference, and thought to yourself "hmmmm. Feels like a lotta manels. Why does that make me feel like shit? Should I still go?"
WELL I wrote about the psychology behind that:
https://dsl.pubpub.org/pub/threat-cues/release/1?readingCollection=265f6d02
This piece is part of the second issue of the Developer Science Review, an overlay journal that my lab is putting out as a side project labor of love to try to share more science that we think helps software teams, and give you both the original source *and* helpful (we hope) commentary on it.
Whole issue here: https://dsl.pubpub.org/volume-1-issue-2-november-2024