The Pillory, the Stock, and Cancel Culture
I was quoted in this article: Dr. Christine Marie is a media psychologist and consultant who is lobbying the American Psychiatric Association to recognize media humiliation as a potential precursor of post-traumatic stress disorder. “The mental health impact on a person who goes through a cancelation is beyond what I believe the people who are doing the canceling can even fathom,” she says. Modern neuroscience is revealing that humiliation, social exclusion, and PTSD can each, independently, ...
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How to Tell if You Are Brainwashed
Thought Reform Self-Check How to tell if you have been subjected to coercive thought reform and authoritarian control by a master manipulator or religious predator. Put a check mark by each one that applies, then count the total. ———————————————- Your ability to think freely is impacted ___You feel concerned about taking this quiz. ___You feel uncomfortable talking to other believers about your doubts. ___You believe your leader has access to divine…
The Socio-Psychomedia Effect
Media, technology, communication, art, and science are intersecting in powerful new ways that are saturating our society and transforming our world. Bernard Luskin (2017) calls media psychology "a specialty whose time is now." In 1998, he described the “socio-psychomedia effect” as a neologism combining sociology, psychology, and media (pictures, graphics, and sound). Media psychology and media studies are different fields, however they both require an understanding of "the physical and emotional aspects ...
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