Anyone who has been to college will probably remember his latest projects as a time of enormous stress and a lot of book reading, in a frantic attempt to prove any thesis you submitted several months earlier. Turns out we could have been studying Animal Crossing, like senior psychology student Sam Davern, who is doing his final study on the psychology of Animal Crossing: New Horizons players. This is you!
Specifically, Sam wants to know if there is a correlation between the behavior of the game’s players and their personality types, and the way he’s calculating it by making you put on your Nook Miles hits, and then make a quick personality. test. Maybe you like people more than art, so you have a lot of Nook Miles hits to visit other islands or make friends with your villagers? I guess we won’t know until the poll is over.
At the end of the survey, you will get a detailed report on your personality and player type, which can give you some useful ideas on how to interact with the world and games.
It’s a completely anonymous poll, of course, and has even been approved by the UCC ethics committee, so there’s no need to worry about how they might chase game statistics again. However, Sam notes that “there has been very little research on the psychology of games out of the ordinary,” video games make people more violent, “and there has basically been no research on social simulation games.” so if the study reaches a large number of participants, it may well reach a scientific journal. Exciting!
The survey is being published right now at animalcrossingsurvey.com and anyone interested can also choose to enter the draw for a Switch game of their choice.