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Catherine Hicks
Dr. Cat Hicks
Cat Hicks is a social science leader in tech with expertise leading applied research teams to explore complex areas of human behavior, empirical intervention, and evidence science. She holds a PhD in Psychology from UC San Diego.
All Pubs (12)
Attributed Pubs (12)
Change Agents: How Experienced Engineering Managers Use Triage, Advocacy and Implementation to Drive Transformation Cycles
by
Catherine Hicks
Published: Apr 24, 2024
Connections
Versions (1):
Catherine M. Hicks
Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety
by
Carol S. Lee
and
Catherine Hicks
CL
Published: Apr 18, 2024
Connections
Versions (1):
Carol S. Lee
& 1 other
Developer Thriving: Four Sociocognitive Factors That Create Resilient Productivity on Software Teams
by
Catherine Hicks
,
Carol S. Lee
, and
Morgan Ramsey
CL
MR
Published: Apr 03, 2024
Connections
Versions (1):
Catherine M. Hicks
& 2 others
Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail
by
Catherine Hicks
Published: Jan 25, 2024
Connections
Versions (1):
Catherine M. Hicks
Is Our Organization Actually Measuring Productivity? How Contrasting Organizational and Individual Measures of Engineering Success is an Opportunity to Drive Engineering Transformation
by
Carol S. Lee
,
Morgan Ramsey
, and
Catherine Hicks
CL
MR
Published: May 23, 2023
The New Developer: AI Skill Threat, Identity Change & Developer Thriving in the Transition to AI-Assisted Software Development
by
Catherine Hicks
,
Carol Lee
, and
Kristen Foster-Marks
Published: Apr 20, 2024
Connections
Versions (1):
Catherine M. Hicks
& 2 others
Generative-AI Adoption Toolkit
by
Kristen Foster-Marks
,
Carol Lee
, and
Catherine Hicks
Published: Jul 23, 2024
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Versions (1):
Generative AI Adoption Toolkit
Understanding interventions in context to benefit developer experience
by
Catherine Hicks
Published: Jul 22, 2024
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Comments (1):
Seed and Soil: Psychological Affordances in Contexts Help to Explain Where Wise Interventions Succeed or Fail
How the cues hypothesis helps us understand social identity threat
by
Catherine Hicks
Published: Nov 19, 2024
🎥 Ghost Datasets & Developer Productivity
by
Catherine Hicks
and
John Flournoy
Published: Dec 10, 2024
Why is measuring developer productivity so difficult?
“My code is shit”: Negative automatic thoughts and outcomes of a behavioral experiment for code review anxiety
by
Carol Lee
,
Catherine Hicks
, and
Kristen Foster-Marks
Published: Oct 16, 2024
Connections
Versions (1):
Carol S. Lee
& 2 others
🎥 Research Jam! Generating Ideas about Studying Developers
by
Catherine Hicks
,
John Flournoy
, and
Kristen Foster-Marks
Published: Jan 24, 2025