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[humbleman]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mind-control-why-the-power-of-suggestion-works/

Mind Control: Why the Power of Suggestion Works

Psychology investigated how the psychology of suggestion works based on a series of experiments. Here's what they found:

The right suggestion can make products seem more valuable
By associating certain concepts with a product, it's possible to manipulate a shopper's assumptions about how valuable it is. Consumers who viewed images of Ferraris and antiques and then priced products that fell under either the category of "foreign" or "old," tended to inflate the prices of the products they saw. Consumers who didn't see the images tended to price the products lower.

Not all suggestions are created equal
Several experiments, including the one above, revealed that "foreign" and "old" tend to carry stronger value associations for customers than "domestic" and "new." The strength of the association varied, too, depending on how much emphasis it was given.

People can be controlled in great masses by a group of individuals applying the psychology of suggestion.

A Hollywood movie shows how psychology of suggestion can be applied in order to obtain profit from the targeted person.



Great corporations of different kind of markets apply psychology of suggestion everyday everywhere.

 

[bilby]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mind-control-why-the-power-of-suggestion-works/

Mind Control: Why the Power of Suggestion Works

Psychology investigated how the psychology of suggestion works based on a series of experiments. Here's what they found:

The right suggestion can make products seem more valuable
By associating certain concepts with a product, it's possible to manipulate a shopper's assumptions about how valuable it is. Consumers who viewed images of Ferraris and antiques and then priced products that fell under either the category of "foreign" or "old," tended to inflate the prices of the products they saw. Consumers who didn't see the images tended to price the products lower.

Not all suggestions are created equal
Several experiments, including the one above, revealed that "foreign" and "old" tend to carry stronger value associations for customers than "domestic" and "new." The strength of the association varied, too, depending on how much emphasis it was given.

People can be controlled in great masses by a group of individuals applying the psychology of suggestion.

A Hollywood movie shows how psychology of suggestion can be applied in order to obtain profit from the targeted person.



Great corporations of different kind of markets apply psychology of suggestion everyday everywhere.

They do indeed.

Of course, religions did it first. Corporations are still playing catch-up.

 

[humbleman]

They do indeed.

Of course, religions did it first. Corporations are still playing catch-up.

Good point.

You are saying that ancient people knew basic psychology even when they didn't gave it a technical name.

Suggesting that some powerful entity or being can disturb the environment and the mind of people must be a hard task, specially when communication wasn't greater than talking to a small group of people.

Amazingly, one of those Ninja Panda cartoon movies shows the enemy telling things to the Panda from a far away location. This is similar to movies where Caesar talks with multitudes of hundreds (or thousands) of people in a vast area, and apparently the farther away dudes can "hear him". With the Panda cartoon movie, the event is more "realistic", the hero can't understand what the bad guy is saying. So the Panda responds to his threats screaming, "What?" "What did you said?"

If religion started with the application of psychology of suggestion, then it was applied in a very small level, like a small clan. It is doubted to survive that way.

 

[Angry Floof]

They do indeed.

Of course, religions did it first. Corporations are still playing catch-up.

Good point.

You are saying that ancient people knew basic psychology even when they didn't gave it a technical name.

Suggesting that some powerful entity or being can disturb the environment and the mind of people must be a hard task, specially when communication wasn't greater than talking to a small group of people.

Amazingly, one of those Ninja Panda cartoon movies shows the enemy telling things to the Panda from a far away location. This is similar to movies where Caesar talks with multitudes of hundreds (or thousands) of people in a vast area, and apparently the farther away dudes can "hear him". With the Panda cartoon movie, the event is more "realistic", the hero can't understand what the bad guy is saying. So the Panda responds to his threats screaming, "What?" "What did you said?"

If religion started with the application of psychology of suggestion, then it was applied in a very small level, like a small clan. It is doubted to survive that way.

The thing about "basic psychology" is that it describes human behavior after the fact. Meaning, yes, before sciency study and explanations came along, human beings used psychological techniques. They just didn't call them that, and they maybe had a less objective understanding of them, but they certainly used them.

Every human being uses suggestion on each other. This is a pretty ordinary, basic aspect of human communication. Just because most people are not consciously or academically aware of what's going on doesn't mean it isn't happening.

If you're talking specifically about purposeful manipulation, that was part of it, too, just like in modern times. We just have technology that offers scale and sophistication, and at the same time, we have other aspects of technology distracting us and making us that much more susceptible to suggestion.

 

[bilby]

They do indeed.

Of course, religions did it first. Corporations are still playing catch-up.

Good point.

You are saying that ancient people knew basic psychology even when they didn't gave it a technical name.

Suggesting that some powerful entity or being can disturb the environment and the mind of people must be a hard task, specially when communication wasn't greater than talking to a small group of people.

Amazingly, one of those Ninja Panda cartoon movies shows the enemy telling things to the Panda from a far away location. This is similar to movies where Caesar talks with multitudes of hundreds (or thousands) of people in a vast area, and apparently the farther away dudes can "hear him". With the Panda cartoon movie, the event is more "realistic", the hero can't understand what the bad guy is saying. So the Panda responds to his threats screaming, "What?" "What did you said?"

If religion started with the application of psychology of suggestion, then it was applied in a very small level, like a small clan. It is doubted to survive that way.

If it works, it tends to be copied by others, and so it endures - and expands.

Like any system that has variable levels of effectiveness across a population, where the more effective parts tend to be copied more widely, and the less effective tend to be discarded, psychological manipulation will, perforce, evolve.

 

[Kharakov]

It's how rich people get away with their obvious corruption- manipulation of the stupid poor into joining the military, then giving them the option "truly join us and enjoy the good life, or be on the bottom".

Hell, the corrupt pieces of shit have a shred of humanity- enough that they cn continue to trick and exploit the poor.

 

[Kusa]

It's how rich people get away with their obvious corruption- manipulation of the stupid poor into joining the military, then giving them the option "truly join us and enjoy the good life, or be on the bottom".

Hell, the corrupt pieces of shit have a shred of humanity- enough that they cn continue to trick and exploit the poor.

I joined the military when I was young. I received a fine education that allowed me to have a lucrative career after I got out. I was not exploited, I had a great time.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I was not exploited, I had a great time.

I also had a great time in the military. but I'm not dumb enough to claim that I was not exploited. The two are not directly connected.

The military got us to do quite a bit of uncompensated work, or work which received very low compensation in comparison to the going rate in a similar industrial position, and often in conditions of not-inconsiderate risk.

 

[humbleman]

It's how rich people get away with their obvious corruption- manipulation of the stupid poor into joining the military, then giving them the option "truly join us and enjoy the good life, or be on the bottom".

Hell, the corrupt pieces of shit have a shred of humanity- enough that they cn continue to trick and exploit the poor.

Not necessarily the rich but could be a certain group using psychology of suggestion to control multitudes. You mentioned the US army, which it might apply to some circumstances, this is to say, when is needed. Troops and public might receive information delivered in strategic steps to have them "on the army side" and support it.

This won't apply all the time, but this is commonly what governments do in order to justify a war. An example is the Argentinian military government, which under the worldwide economic pressure was going into chaos. Then the military announced that some islands in the Pacific Ocean "were Argentinian" (the used Spanish slogan was "Las Malvinas son Argentinas") and they portrayed the scenario in such a way that Argentinians "happily" supported a war for "obtaining" the Falkland islands "back" from the UK.

Psychology of suggestion is also used for cover ups. This is mostly seen in science.

The machine running the media communication is very powerful, and the public is mostly controlled by the application of psychology of suggestion thru the "news".

 

[bilby]

It's how rich people get away with their obvious corruption- manipulation of the stupid poor into joining the military, then giving them the option "truly join us and enjoy the good life, or be on the bottom".

Hell, the corrupt pieces of shit have a shred of humanity- enough that they cn continue to trick and exploit the poor.

Not necessarily the rich but could be a certain group using psychology of suggestion to control multitudes. You mentioned the US army, which it might apply to some circumstances, this is to say, when is needed. Troops and public might receive information delivered in strategic steps to have them "on the army side" and support it.

This won't apply all the time, but this is commonly what governments do in order to justify a war. An example is the Argentinian military government, which under the worldwide economic pressure was going into chaos. Then the military announced that some islands in the Pacific Ocean "were Argentinian" (the used Spanish slogan was "Las Malvinas son Argentinas") and they portrayed the scenario in such a way that Argentinians "happily" supported a war for "obtaining" the Falkland islands "back" from the UK.

Psychology of suggestion is also used for cover ups. This is mostly seen in science.

The machine running the media communication is very powerful, and the public is mostly controlled by the application of psychology of suggestion thru the "news".

Fortunately, after the British won the war, the Royal Navy was able to tow the islands back into the South Atlantic, where they belong.

 

[steve_bank]

No kidding, it osncalled marketingband advwerising.

Repeating a connection between being happy or with a sport enough times it gets burred in the brain. Why do you think obscene amounts of money are spent on Superbowl commercials.

Before WWII propaganda was a common term in marketing. The Nazis gave it the negative baggage.

Modern video advertisong is minf control and propaganda. People study the tesnniques in business school.

 

[humbleman]

No kidding, it osncalled marketingband advwerising.

Repeating a connection between being happy or with a sport enough times it gets burred in the brain. Why do you think obscene amounts of money are spent on Superbowl commercials.

Before WWII propaganda was a common term in marketing. The Nazis gave it the negative baggage.

Modern video advertisong is minf control and propaganda. People study the tesnniques in business school.

Psychology of suggestion is used in ways you don't notice it, and you are a victim of it to the point that you will defend what is fake believing that you are on the right path.

This is much greater than eating, drinking, dressing, driving, and similar... this is about what you think.

An immense and well coordinated application of psychology of suggestion is controlling what you think, and while you believe you are more intelligent and acquiring more intellect, you are just a victim of what others want you to think.