Anyone who’s been to college probably remembers their graduation projects as a time of tremendous stress and a lot of book reading, in a frantic attempt to prove the thesis you pitched several months in advance. Apparently, we could have studied Animal Crossing, like senior psychology student Sam Davern, who is doing his latest study on the psychology of Animal Crossing: New Horizons players. That’s you!
In particular, Sam wants to know if there is a correlation between the players’ behavior in the game and their personality types, and the way he works that out is by letting you do various Nook Miles feats and then doing a quick personality . test. Maybe you like people more than art, so many Nook Miles accomplishments involve visiting other islands or making friends with your villagers? I think we won’t know until the survey is complete.
At the end of the survey, you will be given a detailed report on your personality and player type, which may give you some useful insights into how you interact with the world and games.
It’s a completely anonymous survey, of course, and it’s even been approved by the UCC’s ethics committee, so you don’t have to worry about how your in-game stats might continue to haunt you. However, Sam points out that “there has been very little research on games psychology outside of the usual” video games are making people more violent “and that in fact no research has been done on social simulation games,” so if the study has a lot of participants, it may well be. get a scientific journal. Exciting!
The survey is now live on animalcrossingsurvey.com and anyone interested can also sign up for a drawing for a Switch game of their choice at the end.