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Indoctrination is the process of inculcating (teaching by repeated instruction) a person or people into an ideology (i.e. a doctrine). [1][page needed] Broadly speaking, indoctrination can refer to a general process of socialization. [2] In common discourse, the term often has a pejorative valence to refer to forms of brainwashing or for ...
Brainwashing, also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and forced re-education, is the controversial theory that purports that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques. [1] Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject's ability ...
LC Class. BF633 .T39 2004. Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control is a 2004 popular science book explaining mind control, brainwashing, thought reform and coercive persuasion by neuroscientist and physiologist Kathleen Taylor. It explains the neurological basis for reasoning and cognition in the brain, and proposes that the self is ...
Doublethink. Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. [1] Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy. George Orwell coined the term doublethink as part of the fictional language of ...
BF633 .L5 1989. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China is a non-fiction book by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on the psychology of brainwashing. Lifton's research for the book began in 1953 with a series of interviews with American servicemen who had been held captive during the Korean War.
Biderman's Chart of Coercion originated from Albert Biderman's study of Chinese psychological torture of American prisoners of war during the Korean War.. Biderman's Chart of Coercion, also called Biderman's Principles, is a table developed by sociologist Albert Biderman in 1957 to illustrate the methods of Chinese and Korean torture on American prisoners of war from the Korean War.
Combating Cult Mind Control. Combating Cult Mind Control is a nonfiction book by Steven Hassan, first published in 1988. The book presents itself as a guide to resisting the mind control practices of destructive cults, and focuses on the research of Margaret Singer and Robert Lifton as well as the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger.
120 min. Country. United States. Language. English. Indoctrinate U is a 2007 American feature-length documentary film written by, directed by and starring Evan Coyne Maloney, that examines controversial topics like equality and fairness, diversity, ideological conformism and political correctness in American institutions of higher education.