I don't know about any research supporting this (see what I did there) but in my experience the best performing teams provide a safe space - where you are not immediately judged or criticised for mistakes, uncertainty or asking questions - but this necessary to bleed upwards to not holding teams to unrealistic deadlines, to careful assessment of quality of definition of work set, even towards what Incall "outcome driven development" where we set metrics to be changed and then assert commits will change said metrics

Conversely my worst work has been done when i have bullshitted and now need to keep up the lie. Pro-tip - don't do this

Pro-tip-2 - confidence that you can do something you have not done before, when having a history of success in the field is not the same as bullshitting

Anyway it's hard to measure objectively- but you tend to reward the right people when you do.

And no, markets don't do that nearly as well as you might think