Cognitive science
Wake up: The ‘Ascending reticular activating system’ (ARAS) and its role in consciousness & attention
The reticular formation is essential for governing some of the basic functions of higher organisms and is one of the phylogenetically oldest portions of...
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Killing babies in incubators – The fake Nayirah testimony (PR PsyOp)
The Nayirah testimony (aka the incubator lie) is a paradigmatic case as it demonstrates how the psychology of emotions is abused in the mass-media....
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On boiling frogs & bold men
The boiling frog is an analogy describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is thrown suddenly into...
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The opportunistic marketable/salable character
Excerpt from Prof. Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950). (Op.cit. p.99): “The attitude common to the teachings of the founders of all great Eastern...
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Parapsychology: CIA testing Uri Geller
The CIA was very interested in various methods to manipulate and exploit the human mind. Besides illegal experiments which involved psychotropic drugs and torture,...
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Cognitive dispossession
Bublitz, J.-C.. (2013). My Mind Is Mine!? Cognitive Liberty as a Legal Concept (pp. 233–264). Springer, Dordrecht Plain numerical DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6253-4_19 DOI URL directSciHub...
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Change blindness
Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it....
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Bertrand Russel – The scientific outlook
Publication date 1954 Publisher George Allen And Unwin Limited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZv3pSaLtY
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The structure of power
Vitali, S., Glattfelder, J. B., & Battiston, S.. (2011). The network of Global corporate control. PLoS ONE Plain numerical DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025995DOI URLdirectSciHub download Heemskerk,...
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Supernormal stimuli
A supernormal stimulus or superstimulus is an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that...
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