Stories
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?
In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.
Catalogue
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Nerve. Issue four, care.
Date: [2020]- Archives and manuscripts
Nerve Physiology 1951-1953
Date: 1951-1953Reference: PP/RUS/D/1/4Part of: Rushton, William- Archives and manuscripts
Nerve Physiology 1943-1945
Date: 1943-1945Reference: PP/RUS/D/1/3Part of: Rushton, William- Digital Images
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Nerve Cells and Nerve Fibres
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Nerve Cell
Bill McConkey