The phrase "artificial situation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a scenario that is not natural or is created for a specific purpose, often in discussions about psychology, social experiments, or simulations.
Example: "The researchers created an artificial situation to study how people react under pressure."
Alternatives: "contrived scenario" or "manufactured context".
With a delay, "you begin then to make it an artificial situation.
For the most part, however, their responses are unconvincing efforts to exploit an artificial situation.
It was, in effect, a documentary about a totally contrived and artificial situation.
Speaking of the American involvement in Vietnam, he said: "The trouble is that it's an artificial situation, and it's one that can't be shored up militarily".
Many potential bullies will be slick enough to be polite and receptive in an artificial situation where they know that their personalities are being assessed.
He believes that Dr. Kettlewell's experiments created an entirely artificial situation, with moths in an unnatural position and birds that quickly learned they were being served a free lunch in the woods.
Since returning to the Presidency, Pavlovsky said, Putin has "created an artificial situation in which a 'pathological minority' — the protesters on Bolotnaya Square [two years ago], then Pussy Riot, then the liberal 'pedophiles' — is held up in contrast to a 'healthy majority.' Every time this happens, his ratings go up".
But then in many ways Updike was the representative writer of the cold war – the primary literary beneficiary of an artificial situation in which, as Reinhold Niebuhr once described it, the "paradise of our domestic security is suspended in a hell of global insecurity".
The rest of the time is the artificial situation where it's being pampered, eating and relaxing.
The games are an "artificial situation," says Rand. College students are "used to [such] concepts and hunter-gatherers aren't.
