2023/01/21 by Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, Lorenz Graf‐Vlachy · 1 voice
Computer Science · #AI-based Problem Solving and Planning #Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1109/icse-nier58687.2023.00011
openalex publication_date 2023/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Background: Risk-taking is prevalent in a host of activities performed by software engineers on a daily basis, yet there is scant research on it. Aims and Method: We study if software engineers’ risk-taking is affected by framing effects and by software engineers’ personality. To this end, we perform a survey experiment with 124 software engineers. Results: We find that framing substantially affects their risk-taking. None of the "Big Five" personality traits are related to risk-taking in software engineers after correcting for multiple testing. Conclusions: Software engineers and their managers must be aware of framing effects and account for them properly.