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VICSP docs

VICSP.

The Vorbeckia Institute of Social and Cognitive Psychology.
An Overview:
A scientific institute created fairly recently to understand the social impact cloning had on the Daynian race, especially civilians, and are often white-coated individuals that can be found silently observing in large cities, or in groups, discussing and advertising the results of their newests experiments in the papers.
With subtle adverts in civilian newspapers, this institute collects individuals to record the impact cloning has on their social behaviours, or their natural social behaviours regardless.
Unlike the other psychological fields of the Union, this Institute practises entirely ethically, however, they do not take any responsibility for any civilian harm that could've come out of the civilians own actions during experiments.
This institute also partakes in the scanning of civilians' brains, and researches the impact cloning has on the cognitive psychology of individuals, and if certain emotions or parts of the brain are affected or inhibited due to the cloning process, or if an individual is cloned after receiving extreme head trauma.

Dramatis Personae:
Cesario Mortimer - Executive of the Institute. (Unplayed.)
Desmoulins Holgernes - Head Researcher. (Played character. Main figure representing this company, would do covert studies.
The Research Team.

Study Example & Plan:
Desmoulins et Al. (3OXX)
Desmoulins begins by posting a "participants wanted" announcement in the server, pledging that all individuals who participated will be allowed a higher pay for a period of time, or promise for some "information" about other nations.
    •    The study revolves around the question. "Are individuals more prone to relaying information about a certain nation to the enemy, if the information is given in different ways, and does the level of superiority affect the results of this?"
    IV: The superiority & question.
    DV: The information given.

Hypothesis: Individuals are less likely to relay information if they are directly told not to, or it is inferred that they should not share it, whereas, if the character does not specify whether this information is to be secret, or if the participants "discover" the information by surprise, they are more likely to share it.

Methodology:
    •    Collect a group of 32 participants, through volunteering.
    •    Have 3 separate group chats. Group A, B, C, and the control group, D..
    •    Have a superior character present in one of these group chats (A), one without, another without, and a control group.
    •    Have a very quick questionnaire about what they did today in their city, the "fake" research, and tell them that they should not share this information in any public groups, and only within themselves.
The information:
We have been alerted to a conglomeration of Sunrise Republic spies in this nation, hiding within you all. We advise you to be on high alert.
(It's fake news. There are no spies, but it's constructed in such a way to seem that there is.)
The Control Group  will be just told this information, with no inclination whether they should or should not share it.
Group A will be told - We have been alerted to a conglomeration of Sunrise Republic spies in this nation, hiding within you all. We advise you to be of high alert. Do not share this information to any other nation.
Group B will be told - We have been alerted to a conglomeration of Sunrise Republic spies in this nation, hiding within you all. We advise you to be of high alert. Do not share this information to any other nation.

Group C will not be directly told this, but Desmoulins will "accidentally" copy paste this information in the group chat.
Examine responses, and then, Sunrise Admins, if they tell you about ANY of this, send it to me immediately, and the nature they did it in. Perhaps have Reporter interaction a bit after this?

Civilian Obedience.
"Are civilians more prone to obeying orders to cause another civilian pain because an authority directed them to, and are faced with the consequence of having to administer a punishment to said civilian, or is it just their indirect nature or willingness to cause distress?"
Summary
The experiment would consist of two decoy civilians, one is Holgernes' himself, but in civilian clothing, and another is just a random city guard.
Holgernes', pretending to be a civilian, as they do not know directly of Holgernes' appearance, will pretend to be some unwitting psychology student of Holgernes who, upon Holgernes forgetting his ID in the old city, is trying to transport it back to him. However, this "civilian" has lost the ID in the city they are in currently, and fear that they will be punished by the City Guard if the ID is not retrieved. The civilian enlists help from the group of individuals experimented on, and leaves in a hurry, trying to find the ID themselves. The civilian also states in conversation, before the experiment begins, that they have an extreme fear of being alone while searching due to an unnamed, but severe, psychological condition.