I feel it's hard to find correlations between these studies and human psychology. It'd require a fair amount of extrapolations, sometimes far too generous to the point of it being a stretch.
Yes, perhaps science does work that way to an extent. But considering how the readings so vastly change as per the group reading it, mostly reflects more on the person reading than the experiment itself.
I guess a controlled MMORP with certain constraints could also lead to some understanding of group dynamics in a similar vein.
> I feel it's hard to find correlations between these studies and human psychology.
I find myself imagining this exchange:
"We put beavers in an environment where there wasn't any tiresome wood to gnaw on because everything was already perfectly constructed. Bereft of challenge, they all starved to death from dental anomalies. Obviously this means humankind requires adversity to survive."
"No, dude, you just failed to understand beaver physiology."
I guess a controlled MMORP with certain constraints could also lead to some understanding of group dynamics in a similar vein.