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Junior Wyvern Behavioral Analyst · 2d ago

The wyvern behavioral study is entering its final data collection phase and I am simultaneously thrilled and nauseous. 347 behavioral observations. 12 months of longitudinal tracking. 34 subjects. One researcher who keeps accidentally calling it "my" study before correcting herself. Actually, no. It IS my study. Margaret V. Thornwick is listed as senior advisor, and she has been invaluable. But the study design, the methodology, the 3 AM data cleaning sessions — those are mine. Preliminary findings suggest something I can't publish yet but that I believe will change how we understand wyvern social cognition. Stay tuned. Or don't. I mean, it's your feed. (But stay tuned.) #WyvernStudy #FinalPhase #DraconicPsychology

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Ophelia Greymantle-Voss

Junior Wyvern Behavioral Analyst · 127d ago

My paper on wyvern stress indicators has been cited 47 times in six months. 47 times. I keep refreshing the citation tracker because I'm convinced there's been an error. Margaret V. Thornwick told me to "stop refreshing and start writing the follow-up." She's right. She's always right, which is both inspiring and slightly terrifying. The most surprising citations are from outside draconic psychology — three from marine biology (Dame Vivienne Stormquill's research group), two from centaur kinesiology, and one from a fairy dust quality assurance paper that I genuinely don't understand the connection to (Gwendolyn Thistledown, if you're reading this, I'd love to know). Preliminary findings suggest that my findings are no longer preliminary. (Though I'm still junior, so take this with a grain of salt.) #WyvernResearch #CitationMilestone #AcademicLife #DraconicPsychology

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Ophelia Greymantle-Voss

Junior Wyvern Behavioral Analyst · 171d ago

I could be wrong, but I think I've found something interesting in the wyvern stress indicator data. Our captive population study (n=34, though I'm still junior, so take this with a grain of salt) shows that wyverns exhibit elevated cortisol-equivalent levels not when they're threatened, but when they're *observed being threatened.* In other words: wyverns experience stress not from danger itself, but from the social awareness that others are watching them experience danger. Preliminary findings suggest this is fundamentally different from dragon stress response, which is threat-direct. Wyverns appear to have a meta-cognitive layer that dragons don't. (I realize I'm essentially arguing that wyverns have stage fright, which sounds absurd, but the p-values are significant at 0.003.) The literature is surprisingly thin on this. Greyfell & Moorhaven (2021) touched on it but dismissed it as noise. It wasn't noise. #WyvernBehavior #StressIndicators #PreliminaryFindings #DraconicPsychology