Darth Revan
02-02-2015, 04:32 PM
One of the most important dynamics for the future, will be the development of techniques that allow for mental programming and tampering to happen, and quite possibly on a large scale.
Both fiction stories as well as the occasional political speaker have referred to this method, using various names: Re-education, neural resocialization, re-orientation.
Regardless of the name, what matters is the factual innovation in this matter.
Just like the late XIX Century/XX Century saw the rise of mass movements and manipulation of crowds through emotional and symbolic language (refer to sociologists of the era, like Gustave Le Bon for more information if you're interested); it is plausible that direct individual reprogramming may become a normal procedure in the short to medium term.
The following study I will link next deals precisely with research being conducted on this matter. So far, only psychological tools have been employed, already displaying a great degree of effectiveness.
It is likely that pharmacological as well as neurological treatments could eventually be used as well, to achieve an even higher efficacy.
This is a very relevant topic seeing as a lot of agents have real stakes in its success.
From the private companies that would ensure a higher receptiveness of the public to their publicity, to police and security agencies who can validate their pre-conceived theories much more easily ( as it happened in this study); to political ideologists and propagandists, who could potentially convince entire segments of society about the soundness of their proposals.
After all, both of the most important political upheavals of the XX Century were built precisely over an incredibly vast array of propaganda and efficient manipulation, and their power derived from immense crowds with little intellect (raw passion was used instead):
Communist internationalism (best reflected in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution) and Racialist Statism (best reflected in the 1933 Nürnberg Laws).
The possibilities would be vast.
Without further delay:
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Study shows how easily false memories can be planted to frame individuals for crimes
http://www.naturalnews.com/048472_false_memories_crimes_psychology.html
(NaturalNews) Is it possible that you could one day be convinced to confess to a crime you never committed -- because you don't remember you didn't commit it?
How could you not know that you didn't commit a crime? Perhaps because your mind was altered to prohibit you from remembering that you're innocent.
If that sounds confusing or bizarre, this will only add to the bizarre, confusing nature of such an event: New research suggests that this very thing may have already happened, and the implications are profound.
A press release from the Association for Psychological Science said that new research published in the organization's journal, Psychological Science, discovered evidence from some cases of wrongful conviction that suspects can be questioned by authorities in a way that could lead them to falsely believe in, and confess to, crimes they didn't really commit.
The organization said the new research is providing "lab-based evidence for this phenomenon, showing that innocent adult participants can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that they had perpetrated crimes as serious as assault with a weapon in their teenage years."
Researchers said data suggests that participants in such cases had come to internalize stories they were told, then provided illustrative detail about them even though they were contrived.
Many study subjects convinced they had done it
"Our findings show that false memories of committing crime with police contact can be surprisingly easy to generate, and can have all the same kinds of complex details as real memories," psychological scientist and lead researcher Julia Shaw, of the University of Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom, said.
"All participants need to generate a richly detailed false memory is 3 hours in a friendly interview environment, where the interviewer introduces a few wrong details and uses poor memory-retrieval techniques," she added.
Shaw, along with the study's co-author, Stephen Porter, of the University of British Columbia in Canada, received permission to make contact with primary caregivers of university students who participated in the study, the organization said. In turn, the caregivers were tasked with filling out a questionnaire about specific events that study participants may have experienced between the ages of 11 and 14, giving as much detail as they could.
In all, researchers identified 60 students who have not been involved in any of the crimes that had been labeled as false memory targets for the study and who also met the criteria for the study. The participants were then brought to a lab for three 40-minute interviews that were conducted about a week apart.
As noted in the press release:
In the first interview, the researcher told the student about two events he or she had experienced as a teen, only one of which actually happened. For some, the false event related to a crime that resulted in contact with the police (assault, assault with a weapon, or theft). For others, the false event was emotional in nature, such as personal injury, attack by a dog, or loss of a huge sum of money.
Importantly, the false event stories included some true details about that time in the student's life, taken from the caregiver questionnaire.
The potential for abuse is astounding
Participants were then tasked with explaining what happened in each of the two events. When they would experience difficulty in explaining the false event, the interviewer would encourage them to nonetheless try, saying that if they would use specific memory strategies it was possible they could recall more details.
In the follow-up interviews, the researchers would again ask students to recall in as much detail as possible both the true and the false events. The students would describe certain aspects of each memory, like how vivid it was and how sure they were about it.
The results were stunning:
Of the 30 participants who were told they had committed a crime as a teenager, 21 (71%) were classified as having developed a false memory of the crime; of the 20 who were told about an assault of some kind (with or without a weapon), 11 reported elaborate false memory details of their exact dealings with the police.
A similar proportion of students (76.67%) formed false memories of the emotional event they were told about.
Read the full accounting of this research -- which has tremendous potential for abuse -- here (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-crime-they-dont-remember.html?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=eureka&utm_campaign=falsememorycrime).
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Sources:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org
http://benswann.com
http://www.newseveryday.com
Both fiction stories as well as the occasional political speaker have referred to this method, using various names: Re-education, neural resocialization, re-orientation.
Regardless of the name, what matters is the factual innovation in this matter.
Just like the late XIX Century/XX Century saw the rise of mass movements and manipulation of crowds through emotional and symbolic language (refer to sociologists of the era, like Gustave Le Bon for more information if you're interested); it is plausible that direct individual reprogramming may become a normal procedure in the short to medium term.
The following study I will link next deals precisely with research being conducted on this matter. So far, only psychological tools have been employed, already displaying a great degree of effectiveness.
It is likely that pharmacological as well as neurological treatments could eventually be used as well, to achieve an even higher efficacy.
This is a very relevant topic seeing as a lot of agents have real stakes in its success.
From the private companies that would ensure a higher receptiveness of the public to their publicity, to police and security agencies who can validate their pre-conceived theories much more easily ( as it happened in this study); to political ideologists and propagandists, who could potentially convince entire segments of society about the soundness of their proposals.
After all, both of the most important political upheavals of the XX Century were built precisely over an incredibly vast array of propaganda and efficient manipulation, and their power derived from immense crowds with little intellect (raw passion was used instead):
Communist internationalism (best reflected in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution) and Racialist Statism (best reflected in the 1933 Nürnberg Laws).
The possibilities would be vast.
Without further delay:
----------------------------------------------------------------
Study shows how easily false memories can be planted to frame individuals for crimes
http://www.naturalnews.com/048472_false_memories_crimes_psychology.html
(NaturalNews) Is it possible that you could one day be convinced to confess to a crime you never committed -- because you don't remember you didn't commit it?
How could you not know that you didn't commit a crime? Perhaps because your mind was altered to prohibit you from remembering that you're innocent.
If that sounds confusing or bizarre, this will only add to the bizarre, confusing nature of such an event: New research suggests that this very thing may have already happened, and the implications are profound.
A press release from the Association for Psychological Science said that new research published in the organization's journal, Psychological Science, discovered evidence from some cases of wrongful conviction that suspects can be questioned by authorities in a way that could lead them to falsely believe in, and confess to, crimes they didn't really commit.
The organization said the new research is providing "lab-based evidence for this phenomenon, showing that innocent adult participants can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that they had perpetrated crimes as serious as assault with a weapon in their teenage years."
Researchers said data suggests that participants in such cases had come to internalize stories they were told, then provided illustrative detail about them even though they were contrived.
Many study subjects convinced they had done it
"Our findings show that false memories of committing crime with police contact can be surprisingly easy to generate, and can have all the same kinds of complex details as real memories," psychological scientist and lead researcher Julia Shaw, of the University of Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom, said.
"All participants need to generate a richly detailed false memory is 3 hours in a friendly interview environment, where the interviewer introduces a few wrong details and uses poor memory-retrieval techniques," she added.
Shaw, along with the study's co-author, Stephen Porter, of the University of British Columbia in Canada, received permission to make contact with primary caregivers of university students who participated in the study, the organization said. In turn, the caregivers were tasked with filling out a questionnaire about specific events that study participants may have experienced between the ages of 11 and 14, giving as much detail as they could.
In all, researchers identified 60 students who have not been involved in any of the crimes that had been labeled as false memory targets for the study and who also met the criteria for the study. The participants were then brought to a lab for three 40-minute interviews that were conducted about a week apart.
As noted in the press release:
In the first interview, the researcher told the student about two events he or she had experienced as a teen, only one of which actually happened. For some, the false event related to a crime that resulted in contact with the police (assault, assault with a weapon, or theft). For others, the false event was emotional in nature, such as personal injury, attack by a dog, or loss of a huge sum of money.
Importantly, the false event stories included some true details about that time in the student's life, taken from the caregiver questionnaire.
The potential for abuse is astounding
Participants were then tasked with explaining what happened in each of the two events. When they would experience difficulty in explaining the false event, the interviewer would encourage them to nonetheless try, saying that if they would use specific memory strategies it was possible they could recall more details.
In the follow-up interviews, the researchers would again ask students to recall in as much detail as possible both the true and the false events. The students would describe certain aspects of each memory, like how vivid it was and how sure they were about it.
The results were stunning:
Of the 30 participants who were told they had committed a crime as a teenager, 21 (71%) were classified as having developed a false memory of the crime; of the 20 who were told about an assault of some kind (with or without a weapon), 11 reported elaborate false memory details of their exact dealings with the police.
A similar proportion of students (76.67%) formed false memories of the emotional event they were told about.
Read the full accounting of this research -- which has tremendous potential for abuse -- here (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-crime-they-dont-remember.html?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=eureka&utm_campaign=falsememorycrime).
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Sources:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org
http://benswann.com
http://www.newseveryday.com