Honestly it's just a nomenclature or convention to define hierarchies.
I've had certain projects where it was useful to get teams aligned on how to view a particular project. That being said, sometimes it's also heralded as something super life changing, which it isn't.
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.
Yeah I so agree.
Specially post the AI boom, there's just this intrinsic itch I see of taking a product that queries chatGPT and slaps an AI label on it to make it a product.
(I'm look at you Rabbit R1).
I do understand that it does foster some air of competition and hence there's a the capitalistic push of doing better than the other person. But then, a lot of sub standard software leaks through which shifts the whole benchmark for acceptable user experience.