Manipulation, indoctrination and addiction
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Manipulation, indoctrination and addiction
- The instinct to fit ourselves to our milieu is tricky. It often leads us astray. If not deliberate, we end up internalizing behaviors and values that do not serve us. But it can also, in this way, be a strength: by actively curating your “audience”, as well as what you let into your senses, you can leverage the instinct to conform in your favor. Yo... See more
from First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us by Henrik Karlsson
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- If you want to change someone’s behavior, easier than altering their motivation or changing their actual environment is altering their perception of reality. This third way of manipulating a human is a shortcut—a cheat—made possible by one of human evolution’s best tricks:Delusion.
from A Story of Stories by Tim Urban
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
Often, our first tactic for making change is information. To improve diets, we tell kids about the links between donuts, soda, obesity, and diabetes. To improve efficiency, we inform staff about new procedures or values. These educational interventions draw upon the power of authoritative information to change minds and behavior. While this tactic
... See morefrom Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything by Peter Morville
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- This dynamic happens all the time. Someone shares a problem and we want to jump on it and solve it. But sometimes it’s okay to just let people feel like victims instead of shaming them into working with us, to let them have their experience and not need to change it. Our need to change other people and fix them might be the real problem rather than... See more
from Seven Principles & Seven Practices on Empathy in Marketing - Marketing For Hippies by Tad Hargrave
Ana Fragoso added
Our minds, akin to malleable clay, are shaped and reshaped by our experiences — both real and virtual. This susceptibility to influence goes beyond simple manipulation; it’s a fundamental aspect of our psychology.
from The Illusion of Self in the Digital Age: Unraveling Our Multiple Identities by Khalil Liouane
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we must have a way to make sense of these experiences. pkm can externalise them
- Yet, the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms are engineered to exploit our primal instincts for validation, status, and mimetic desires (adopting or pursuing preferences and aspirations based on the influence of others rather than our intrinsic motivations), morphing into a manipulative force that feeds ... See more
from André Chaperon
Andreas Vlach and added
- The notion that people struggle to make decisions is one of the classic premises used to justify pushy and manipulative sales techniques.
from "But aren't people indecisive?" - Marketing For Hippies by Tad Hargrave
Ana Fragoso added
- Metaphors mixing mind with machine proliferate across pop psychology—not least in subliminal fan communities, where the videos are seen as programmes that can delete, rewrite, and generate new “programming.” That a behaviour can be ‘soft-’ or ‘hard-coded’ is useful shorthand for nurture and nature—programming from parents, society, and environment ... See more
from She's Evil, Most Definitely Subliminal – ZORA ZINE
Severin Matusek added