---
id: "lit-psychological-safety"
type: "adjacent-literature"
source_timestamps: ["Enrichment Overlay — Adjacent Literature §3"]
tags: ["psychological-safety", "team-learning"]
related: ["claim-trust-reduces-workslop", "framework-system-level-response"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-38-ai-workslop"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/why-people-create-ai-workslop-and-how-to-stop-it"
sourceTitle: "Why People Create AI “Workslop”—and How to Stop It"
---
# Psychological Safety & Team Learning (Edmondson)

**Psychological Safety & Team Learning (Amy Edmondson).** Edmondson's research shows teams learn and perform better when members feel safe to admit errors, ask questions, and challenge norms. The source's emphasis on trust — comfort admitting AI use, raising quality concerns, asking for feedback — maps directly onto psychological safety as a precondition for responsible AI experimentation and reduced workslop.

Directly underpins [[claim-trust-reduces-workslop]] and the Culture layer of [[framework-system-level-response]].


## Related across articles
- [[prereq-psychological-safety-d79]]
- [[concept-digital-playgrounds]]