The soft skills of software learning development: Psychological dimensions of computing and security behaviours

软件学习开发的软技能：计算和安全行为的心理维度”。该项目旨在调查软件开发人员和计算机科学家的认知和社会行为，以更好地理解软技能的心理基础，软技能在软件开发中很重要。软技能，或非技术技能，在工作场所很重要，它允许一个人有效地使用他们的技术技能来实现他们的目标。以前的研究已经考察了软件开发人员所拥有的技能，或者雇主所寻求的软技能，但这并没有比识别诸如“解决问题”、“团队合作”或“批判性思维”之类的技能走得更远。这个博士项目旨在确定支撑这些技能的心理维度，比如认知反思或社会认同。在这样做的过程中，有可能使用心理学为软件开发人员提供见解，并帮助他们减轻或减少工作实践中潜在的偏见或盲点。只有当我们更多地了解软件开发人员在技术能力之外的心理构成时，才能做到这一点。通过定性和定量研究的结合，该项目旨在识别软件开发人员和潜在开发人员（例如本科计算机科学家）群体中的这些维度，以突出在软件开发中有用的心理构成。这些相同的研究主题可以应用于软件开发中看到的安全行为，以便理解和促进软件开发中更好的安全实践。这个项目的影响延伸到理论和实践。理论上，它允许更好地理解软件开发人员的心理。它还提供了一个平台，在这个平台上可以测试进一步的想法和假设，这些想法和假设可以用来鼓励软件开发人员更好地进行安全行为。实际上，这项研究可以用来更新和指导大学开设的计算机科学课程，以促进和鼓励软技能的发展，从而使软件开发行业受益。

The soft skills of software learning development: Psychological dimensions of computing and security behaviours". This project aims to investigate the cognitive and social behaviours of software developers and computer scientists to better understand the psychological underpinnings of the soft skills that are important in software development. Soft skills, or non-technical skills, are important in the workplace to allow a person to use their technical skills effectively to achieve their goals.Previous research has examined the skills that software developers possess, or what soft skills are sought by employers, but this has not gone much further than identifying skills such as "problem solving", "teamwork", or "critical thinking". This PhD project aims to identify the psychological dimensions that underpin these skills, such as cognitive reflection or social identities. In doing so, it is possible to use psychology to offer insights to software developers and help them mitigate or reduce potential biases or blind spots in their working practices. This can only be done once we understand more about the psychological makeup of software developers beyond their technical abilities. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative research, this project aims to identify these dimensions in populations of software developers and prospective developers (e.g. undergraduate computer scientists) to highlight the psychological makeup that is useful in software development. These same research themes can be applied to the security behaviours seen in software development, in order to understand and promote better security practices in software development.The impact of this project extends in to both the theoretical and practical. Theoretically, it allows for a better understanding of the psychology of software developers. It also provides a platform upon which further ideas and hypotheses can be tested that can be used to encourage better security behaviours in software developers. Practically, the research can be used to update and inform the computer science courses offered by universities to promote and encourage the development of soft skills, which in turn will benefit the software development industry.