Being aware of the state of our minds and our environment is very important not only for Agile teams, but for any team. Let's say that you have made up your mind about what you are going to do and are about to execute your plan. There may be several courses of action for you to take at this point, and in my experience the best way is to examine the situation, look for social science studies that match the problem at hand, pick one, and carefully apply its recommendations. The more studies and experiments you know the better your chances are to pick the right one, and make a positive difference.

1. Social Sciences Make a Difference
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by
Zsolt Fabok
2014-02-06
The good thing about science is that
it's true whether or not you believe in it
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http://www.oop-konferenz.de/

4. The 3 symptoms of laziness
According to a lazy person:
1.

5. According to the Oxford dictionary:
1. Unwilling to work or use energy
2. Characterized by lack of effort or activity
3. Showing a lack of effort or care
(Not to be confused with the work aversion
disorder. Source: wikipedia)
The 3 symptoms of laziness

6. by
Prof. Dr. Martin Seligman (1967)
The dog experiment
image: http://bit.ly/14axX5J

7. Learned helplessness
Is a technical term that refers to the condition of
a human or animal that has learned to behave
helplessly, failing to respond even though there
are opportunities for it to help itself by avoiding
unpleasant circumstances or by gaining positive
rewards.

8. by
Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (1968)
The class room experiment
image: http://bit.ly/12IiNzR

9. Pygmalion Effect
People will perform to the level of
expectations you set for them.

10. image: http://bit.ly/1ar4juf

11. by
Elton Mayo (1927)
The Hawthorne experiments
image: http://bit.ly/PEucyR

12. Hawthorne Effect
The phenomenon in which subjects in
behavioral studies change their performance
in response to being observed.

13. by
Lee Ross, David Green, Pamela House (1977)
The False-consensus Effect
image: http://bit.ly/9n66nj

14. False-consensus Effect
There is a tendency for people to assume that
their own opinions, beliefs, preferences, values
and habits are 'normal' and that others also think
the same way that they do. This tends to lead to
the perception of a consensus that does not exist,
a 'false consensus'.

15. by
Edmund Gettier (1963)
The Gettier Problem
(campus clock version)
The Gettier Problem is a philosophical thought experiment that
has nothing to do with social sciences, yet it is important image: http://bit.ly/MG8Kbn

16. Gettier Problems
The problems are actual or possible situations in
which someone has a belief that is both true and
well supported by evidence, yet which — according
to almost all epistemologists — fails to be
knowledge.

17. Thank you very much for your attention!
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18. Seligman, M.E.P., Maier, S.F., and Geer, J. (1968). The alleviation of
learned helplessness in dogs. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 73,
256-262.
Rosenthal, R., and Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom:
Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual development'. New
York: Rinehart and Winston. ISBN: 1904424066
Elton Mayo (1933). The Human Problems of an Industrialized
Civilization. ISBN: 0415604230
Ross, L (1977).The false consensus effect:An egocentric bias in
social perception and attribution processes. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology 13. ISSN 00221031.
Gettier problem: http://www.ditext.com/gettier/gettier.html,
http://www.iep.utm.edu/epistemo/
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