Mind Engineering, Habit, and Human Nature by Andrii Leonov

“…Thus, instead of looking at the phenomenon from a wholly negative perspective (such as identification of mind engineering with “brainwashing,” “mind control” and other manipulatory techniques), it defines mind engineering as the process of “design/redesign, implementation/reimplementation, evaluation/reevaluation of minds.” …”
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Keep your eye on the metaphor: The framing of the Common Core on Twitter by Jonathan Supovitz, Elisabeth Reinkordt

“…In our research, we identified five frames: the Government Frame, which presented the Common Core as an oppressive government intrusion into the lives of citizens and appealed to limited-government conservatives; the Propaganda Frame, which depicted the standards as a means of brainwashing children, and in doing so, hearkened back to the cold war era when social conservatives positioned themselves as defenders of the national ethic; the War Frame, which portrayed the standards as a front in the nation’s culture wars and appealed to social and religious conservatives to protect traditional cultural values; the Business Frame, which rendered the standards as an opportunity for corporations to profit from public education and appealed to liberal opponents of business interests exploiting a social good; and the Experiment Frame, which used the metaphor of the standards as an experiment on children and appealed to the principle of care that is highly valued amongst social liberals. …”
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Third-Person Perceptions and Calls for Censorship of Flat Earth Videos on YouTube by Asheley R. Landrum, Alex Olshansky

“…Instead, people may worry these videos are brainwashing others. That individuals believe other people will be more influenced by media messages than themselves is called third-person perception (TPP), and the consequences from those perceptions, such as calls for censorship, are called third-person effects (TPE). …”
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Parental Alienation Syndrome: A critique by Brendan Willis, William O’Donohue

“…It is purported to result from the combination of a parent’s “brainwashing” and indoctrination regarding the vilification of the target parent. …”
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NAZI AGITATION AND PROPAGANDA IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC by Olga Rudaya

“…The relevance of this problem is preconditioned by modern socio-political processes associated with the ideological brainwashing of the electorate during the election campaign to obtain its support in the elections. …”
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Latina Muslim Producers of Online and Literary Countermedia by Yamil Avivi

“…Western(ized) media images I examined for this essay about Latinas converting to Islam raise suspicions over possible forced conversions, brainwashing, or abuse. What is evident and salient in these media portrayals, whether deliberately or unintentionally created, are the binaries (Western vs. non-Western, Christian vs. …”
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From “The Snow Child” to “Snow White”: Angela Carter’s inheritance from Classic Fairy Tales by Fan, Yingying, Kaur, Hardev, Ujum, Diana Abu, Mohd Amin, Hasyimah

“…Through punishing the body and disciplining the mind, Carter’s “The Snow Child” explicitly presents the male’s manipulation of power on the female through body production, destiny control, and overt incest, while in the Grimms’ “Snow White,” a hidden clue exposes the operation of the patriarchal power mechanism over women, but in a more subtle way, revealing that patriarchal power disciplines women through brainwashing the mind and punishing the body. Research findings show that rather than being a tool to maintain patriarchal culture, classic fairy tales actually subvert patriarchy implicitly by exhibiting the patriarchy’s operating mechanism in producing “angels.”…”

La propagande anti-britannique en France pendant l’Occupation by Françoise Passera

“…In 1940, the anti-British brainwashing campaigns aimed at ridding the defeated French of their guilt by accusing the ex-ally of being the cause of the conflict and of deceit during the Battle of France. …”
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What to Build the Theory of Upbringing for the “New Ukrainian School” by Oleh Hirnyi

“…Due to the traditions of this school, the Polish school system and society as a whole could resist the dialectical “brainwashing” and liberate itself from the dogmas of communist thinking, as far as carry out the necessary reforms, in particular, in the area of education, making it compatible with the educational systems of EU countries. …”
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POWER TO CHOOSE / by Sargent, Haydn, author 656354

Postscript – Today’s Ukraine, Tomorrow’s Taiwan: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, China’s Revanchism, and the Chinese Communist Party-State’s Quest to Remake the World in Its Own Imag... by Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh

“…Clearly this is a mainly tactical alliance of two repressive regimes supporting each other’s survival against the threat from the liberal democratic world, as the historical territorial grievances are supposed to have go against this alliance if the CCP regime were to stay true to its relentless brainwashing of its subject people with ultra-nationalism anchored on the “Hundred Years of National Humiliation”. …”
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Postscript – From Pandemic Diplomacy, Mainlandisation of Hong Kong to the Embattled Belt and Road Initiative: The Enigma of Communist China’s Superpower March by Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh

“…Amidst these shocking developments, there is also the brewing of another political fallout from the CCP’s dragging of at least a million Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region into brainwashing internment camps euphemistically termed by the State as “vocational education and training centres”, with calls from the Western democracies for a “diplomatic boycott” of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in condemning CCP’s crimes against humanity, and the CCP’s raising of tension over the Taiwan Strait and the more and more imminent threat of invasion of Taiwan – the island state that is Asia’s most vibrant liberal democracy – with the incursions of Communist air force (“People’s Liberation” Army Air Force (PLAAF)) warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence zone continuing to escalate in both size and frequency in a remarkable year of historically highest number of such incursions – as high as 56 forays in a single day of 4th October. …”
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“Ega ma arsti juurde ju ometi ei lähe!” Eemiline uskmatus oletataval uue vaimsuse uurimisväljal by Age Kristel Kartau

“…Soviet ideological brainwashing during the occupation trained Estonians to hang on to thinking for themselves and antagonism-buttressed self-preservation. …”
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POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH: WHERE DO WE STAND? by Abdul Wahab Yousafzai

“…For, instance, the harassment, bullying, grandstanding attitude on social media is not uncommon while personal political debates, demeaning comments and its association with psychosocial sickness is well documented.7 The cult indoctrination is another distressing phenomenon, where the leaders coerce the followers through persuasions, thoughts reformation and brainwashing leading to immense suffering of exposed population to such condition, at times along with their family, friends and community at large.8   There is large body of research pointing towards the abusive effects of cultic politics and its adverse emotional consequences. …”
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The Global Phenomenon of Skin Bleaching by Obiora Anekwe

“…One of the most recent examples of coercive means to brainwash Africans throughout the West African Diaspora is most visible in the phenomenon of bleaching one’s skin in order for it to be lighter. …”
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Radikalisme Islam dan Perilaku Orang Kalah Dalam Perspektif Psikologi Sosial by , Koentjoro

“…In Indonesia, radicalism is mostly induced by the Moslems' depressed and threatened feeling due to their being marginalized'in political life and iQdividually brainwashed by the religion teachers through dogmatic teaching. …”

H.G. Stoker – oor gesag en mag by H.G. Stoker

“…The fact that we as Christians have, together with everybody else been systematically brainwashed by humanism’s idol making of “democracy” and “people’s sovereignity”, lends an extraordinary high degree of relevance to this theme, which Stoker formulates in terms different from what we would expect (in our compromised view) to be.…”
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Taking sides : clashing views in social psychology / by Nier, Jason A.

Bureaucratic Rationalism and The Quiet (R)evolution by William Twining

“…We can of course pump students full of facts or even brainwash them — but pumping facts is a waste of everybody’s time and washing brains in public is, as Justice Holmes might have told us, dirty business. …”
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The Art of Spectacle as a Second Reality by Mileva Pavlović, Ljiljana Manić, Marija Aleksić

“…Within that process, recipient who is supposed to criticaly think about media content transforms into a muted and brainwashed consumer of everything that is presented by media. …”
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