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In his 1976 lecture Society Must Be Defended, Michel Foucault repeated these ideas. [8] According to him: [W]hile colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on the apparatuses, institutions, and techniques of power.
In social psychology, the boomerang effect, also known as "reactance", refers to the unintended consequences of an attempt to persuade resulting in the adoption of an opposing position instead. It is sometimes also referred to as "the theory of psychological reactance ", stating that attempts to restrict a person's freedom often produce an ...
The term is named after the American policy analyst and former senior vice president at Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Joseph Overton, who proposed that the political viability of an idea depends mainly on whether it falls within an acceptability range, rather than on the individual preferences of politicians using the term or concept.
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The Fat Face illusion happens when two identical images of the same face are aligned vertically, the face at the bottom appears fatter. The effect is much smaller than the Jastrow Illusion, with a size difference of only four percent. The experiment showed that both humans and chimpanzees were fooled by the Jastrow Illusion.
Get the guest room ready, because Mom and Dad are moving in. What sounds like the logline of a ’90s sitcom is reality for Lars, a college instructor in her late thirties whose boomer parents ...
One of the Silicon Valley's most famous names, Apple founder Steve Jobs left the company in 1985 over differences with then CEO John Sculley. Michael Dell founded Dell Inc in 1980s and held the ...
Boomerang effect may refer to: Boomerang effect (psychology) in social psychology; Imperial boomerang in sociology and political science; Unintended consequences in ...