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  2. Gaslighting - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the accepted version, checked on 19 December 2024. There are template/file changes awaiting review. Type of psychological manipulation This article is about human behavior. For illumination derived from burning gas, see Gas lighting. Google Trends topic searches for "Gaslighting" began a substantial increase in 2016. Gaslighting is a ...

  3. Propaganda techniques - Wikipedia

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    It is an inevitable process of selective influence over the individual's perception of the meanings attributed to words or phrases. Gaslighting Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying to sow seeds of doubt in a target individual or group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, sanity, and norms. Gish ...

  4. Demoralization (warfare) - Wikipedia

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    Causing self-doubt or doubt in a cause is the simple definition most commonly ascribed to demoralization. [3]: 189 It is one aspect of a successful strategic demoralization campaign but is the most pronounced and essential part.

  5. Attack ad - Wikipedia

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    University of Toronto professor Scott Hawkins "suggests that even a mention in the media that a candidate or party is planning to run negative advertisements can be beneficial, since it plants seeds of doubt in the voter's mind, especially early in the campaign when voters tend to be less involved. If the reported claims turn up in ...

  6. LETTER: Media shouldn't plant seeds of doubt about opioid ...

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    I am insulted that there is any suggestion of intentional deceit, unfairness and closed-door cherry picking about the funds allowed to our community.

  7. Lies, damned lies, and statistics - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the phrase "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is unclear, but Mark Twain attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli [1] "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics. [2]

  8. What is the debt ceiling, and is Trump right that a default ...

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    Doubt in the typically reliable U.S. currency could tank the markets, hurting 401(k)s and other investments (The S&P 500 lost 17% in the months surrounding the 2011 debt ceiling standoff.)

  9. Doubt - Wikipedia

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    Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between two or more contradictory propositions, and is uncertain about them. [1] [better source needed] Doubt on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief.