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When self-deception becomes global hoax
| A R Hopwood
Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.
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It’s getting mighty crowded
| Charlotte SleighGergo Varga
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
- Book extract
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
| Daniel PickSteven Pocock
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.