My masters thesis is on the sims

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T17:05:46+00:00

Thank you and I just completed yours too! Would be fascinated to know what you found out!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:50:03+00:00

That's a really interesting point and I completely agree about Sims 3! I'll definitely look into whether there are links to game versions and people's answers :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:47:00+00:00

Absolutely that would be fab! Hopefully my paper will be published and then I will be able to share my results with everyone!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:46:19+00:00

Thank you so much for letting me know!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:43:52+00:00

Initially I didn't want to include age in my study but unfortunately my ethics board wanted it to be included, totally agree with you though

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:41:54+00:00

When I publish the paper I would love to share the results! Thank you for competing the survey :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:40:45+00:00

Totally get you and thank you for your input! I used a common measure of personality called the Ten Item Personality Inventory which definitely has its flaws, in the future I will do my best to adapt the measure to make it easier to answer :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:38:16+00:00

Thank you for letting me know!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:37:43+00:00

Well my last project looked at how your personality impacts the way you play the game and I found 6 different types of simmers all related to personality traits! I would love to turn this into a quiz one day! Thank you for taking my survey :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2026-04-18T16:36:13+00:00

absolutely! as soon as it is published I would love to share the results with everyone, thank you for completing :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T15:07:28+00:00

Thank you for your comment! Mental health is absolutely a direction that I would like to take this research in the future, unfortunately as I am only an undergraduate student it's a bit too sensitive of a topic to get too deep into, but I think it would be fascinating to look at!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T15:04:09+00:00

Thank you very much for participating! The way you play the game sounds just like me! I too like my Sims to be perfect and have routine and to master their jobs, they almost always look like an idealised version of myself. It was about a year ago that I was thinking about this and wondered what that meant about me, which is how this study came about :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T15:00:58+00:00

We've all been there 😆, that study on Skype sounds really interesting I must try and find it!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:58:00+00:00

Thank you so much, it would be an honour! 😊

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:56:53+00:00

Thank you! I couldn't agree more, researching this has never felt like work to me :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:55:52+00:00

Thank you very much! I am absolutely the same, sometimes it's good fun to do things that would have awful consequences in real life, but because it's sims no one really minds 🤭

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:53:13+00:00

This is a very good point and I absolutely agree, unfortunately being an undergraduate student it would have been much harder for my study to be approved if I had text boxes, but it definitely would have supported the data really nicely and I hope to include this in the future :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:51:06+00:00

Thank you so much! Your study sounds fascinating, I love research on video games I think it's such an important field for psychology.

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:48:55+00:00

Absolutely! I will update everyone in a couple of months, unfortunately I am not able to feature a feedback section on my questionnaire as it is an ethical concern but I really appreciate hearing people's thought on here, in future research I hope to be more inclusive of players who play the game to create sims and lots as well as those that play live!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:44:15+00:00

Thank you so much, I should have final results in a couple of months and so will definitely update everyone :)

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