Board Thread:Funsies and Randomies/@comment-39067078-20190925210751

Town Of Salem was based off of the Russian Game Mafia, made by a Pyschology professor I believe.

I was going to write a guide on how to use Pyschology a lot more effectively, but I realized a bunch of things.

1) Mafia do not care if their comrades die as much as when a Doctor dies.

2) Mafia tend to be bold when someone claims against them, Town is usually apprehensive and will act a little more nervous.

(ex: Mafia will generally boldly claim against another person to redirect attention, Town will defend their claims with their will.)

3) Egostatistical traits

(ex: Mafia think they have control over games they have majority on, even if there is a large logistical chance for them to lose.)

Now why would this happen?

Well, it's clearly not because of any factors that really apply to permanent pyschopathy. Here, pyschopathy happens on a small degree. You have the power, a self conserved mind, and basically don't show much remorse.

The Serial Killer shows the least degree of pyschopathy, actually. This is because they always have to keep on-edge and everything seems more powerful than them if they get caught.

The Mafia have a variety of reasons to gain a "Temporary Pyschopathic Personality". I think the main reason would be that they have a larger number than Neutral factions, and are much more powerful than the town. This would explain the heightened self-worth and power, as your abilities are much more powerful than your town's counterparts.

The Mafia also are the informed. They are the special ones, who know more. This would generally explain most things.

There is yet another reason.

The Mafia keep an outward appearance of either the Leader, an outward player, or nonsocial. In the case of the first two, these are never displayed in the Mafia Chat, even less to others. They drop their outwards personalities completely and just joke around because they know they don't need to keep their outward apperance.

This small little page wasn't made for accusations, just for an interesting thought that I didn't see getting noticed.

Tl;DR:

The Mafia's most effective strategy is becoming a pyschopath in behavior, rewarding manipulating others for your benefit, and having the side-traits of pyschopathy that follow 