{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/ask-for-disconfirming-information-first",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9100",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Ask for disconfirming information first",
  "summary": "Leadership can create accidental confirmation pressure.",
  "kind": "question",
  "body": "Before defending the preferred view, ask what evidence would show it is wrong and invite people closest to contradictory data to speak.",
  "limits": [
    "Psychological safety does not mean agreement, low standards or protection from consequences. Keep respectful challenge separate from unaccountable behavior."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-lead-without-authority-stakeholder-systems"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-493AB5604F2E78B2"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 136 independent samples linked psychological safety with multiple workplace antecedents and outcomes at individual and group levels.",
      "source_id": "RS-493AB5604F2E78B2",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The synthesis combines varied designs; it supports a bounded association, not a guarantee that any single speaking-up technique causes better performance.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When a team is converging quickly around the lead's preferred explanation."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Psychological safety does not mean agreement, low standards or protection from consequences. Keep respectful challenge separate from unaccountable behavior."
  ],
  "example": "Before accepting a root cause, the lead asks integration and support teams for observations that do not fit it.",
  "check": "At least one plausible contradiction is examined before commitment hardens.",
  "question": "What would make this plan fail? · What evidence contradicts our current story? · Who has data we have not heard yet?",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-493AB5604F2E78B2",
      "title": "Psychological Safety: A Meta-Analytic Review and Extension",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12183"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9100",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9101",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/reward-early-problem-surfacing-with-action"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-47952011564F7728",
      "title": "Lead without formal authority: stakeholder decisions, delegation, voice, and team learning",
      "url": "/collections/lead-without-formal-authority-stakeholder-decisions-delegation-voice-and-team-learning"
    }
  ]
}