The german professor Rainer Mausfeld publicised lectures about how the "elite" used and utilize psychological knowledge to manipulate our opinions and keep us calm. In this case, they failed, because of what psychologists call "Reactance" (The effect that when you, for example, force your children to not smoke, they turn out to be drastically more likely to do it anyway than if you had kept calm and said nothing). Here is an interview with him with english subtitles for anyone interested (sorry, it's on youtube):
You are viewing a single comment's thread from: