# Ambiguity & Predictability

*Tom Geraghty · Voice & Silence, Power*

Develops the two-gate framework: ambiguity failure (is it safe to speak?) and valence failure (will it matter?). Argues positive interpersonal predictability — confidence about how vulnerability will land — is the mechanism through which psychological safety actually operates.

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- [Calculus of Voice](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/the-calculus-of-voice.md)
- [How We Respond](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/how-we-respond-matters.md)
- [Leadership Behavior and Employee Voice: Is the Door Really Open?](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/detert-burris-2007.md) (paper)
- [Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/kahneman-tversky-1979.md) (paper)
- [Analysis of the Iridium 33-Cosmos 2251 Collision](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/kelso-2009.md) (paper)
- [High & Low Context Communication](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/reading-the-air-high-and-low-context-communication-in-teams.md)
- [Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-Granted Rules of Self-Censorship at Work](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/detert-edmondson-2011.md) (paper)
- [Watermelon Effect](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/the-watermelon-effect-and-greenwashing.md)
- [Barriers to PS](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/barriers-to-psychological-safety.md)
- [Contracting & Recontracting](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/contracting-and-recontracting.md)
- [Feedback & PS](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/feedback-in-the-workplace.md)
- [Prospect Theory](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/prospect-theory-and-psychological-safety.md)
- [Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/ellsberg-1961.md) (paper)
- [Types of Silence](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/types-of-silence.md)
- [Fake It Till You Make It](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/fake-it-till-you-make-it.md)
- [Lean Coffee](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/psychological-safety-93-lean-coffee.md)