Videos about brainwashing
February 26, 2013 at 12:17 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 3 CommentsTags: brainwashing, influence, Mind control, Persuasion and Social Influence, Psychology, YouTube
I’ve done a set of short introductory videos about brainwashing, now available on YouTube.
In them, I’m arguing that brainwashing is not magical super-tech. Nor is it entirely propaganda. It relies on human psychological weaknesses — or, to put it another way, on the remarkable flexibility of our brains.
I talk about what brainwashing is and whether it really exists, its history, types of brainwashing, and the five core psychological techniques of brainwashing. (That last one’s a bit longer.)
For a taster, here’s the first one, on ‘What is brainwashing?’
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