Aso see Anti-psychiatry & Big Pharma at my other site, Calm Mind open ♡ because diet culture and sane culture use the same tactics
"I got better, so can you!"
Fit-to-fat-to-fit tv show.
we all know the premise. Fit person gets fat, then loses it to show fat people it's just THAT easy and to "motivate" them to lose weight.
1. Puts all blame on fat person. Diets do not work and can be dangerous.
2. Thin people have different brain chemistry, body makeup, leptin vs ghelin balance,food interests and sometimes, even stronger taste buds than thinner people.
---Just like, I can't dress as my boyfriend and then yell at him because ... "why can't he just be a girl like me!!" Or, like a straight person having sex with a person of the same sex and saying "see it's THAT easy to NOT be gay. Just be straight."
3.Just because someone else likes kale and protein drinks doesn't mean someone else does. And no, this isn't the sign of a food or sugar addiction.
4. Dieting is just another form of an eating disorder/disordered eating. A person is supposed to follow their body's hunger signals. Stop telling people to "train" their hunger signals, that is what pro-ana websites tell people.
5. This is bigotry in another form. Just like people "go gay and straight again, because it's THAT easy" this is just a form of bigotry that is just accepted.Not okay.
1. Puts all blame on fat person. Diets do not work and can be dangerous.
2. Thin people have different brain chemistry, body makeup, leptin vs ghelin balance,food interests and sometimes, even stronger taste buds than thinner people.
---Just like, I can't dress as my boyfriend and then yell at him because ... "why can't he just be a girl like me!!" Or, like a straight person having sex with a person of the same sex and saying "see it's THAT easy to NOT be gay. Just be straight."
3.Just because someone else likes kale and protein drinks doesn't mean someone else does. And no, this isn't the sign of a food or sugar addiction.
4. Dieting is just another form of an eating disorder/disordered eating. A person is supposed to follow their body's hunger signals. Stop telling people to "train" their hunger signals, that is what pro-ana websites tell people.
5. This is bigotry in another form. Just like people "go gay and straight again, because it's THAT easy" this is just a form of bigotry that is just accepted.Not okay.
Delusions on gradeur
God complex
- Why Do Some People Have a 'God Complex'? Uploaded by DNews
- What Exactly is God Complex? @No Bullying - “ Being willing to take advantage of others in order to achieve their goals and desires.* An over-inflated assessment of their abilities, and exaggerated beliefs about their special talents and achievements.* Dramatic behavior occurs that can be both anti-social and illegal.* Although they may portray themselves as arrogant and super confident, in reality they may suffer from low self-esteem, and can not handle any type of criticism.”
- Narcissism is it? What is Meant by God Complex in Psychology?@ Buzzle - Extremely arrogant.Judgmental.Cannot tolerate criticism.Need to influence.Addicted to power
- What is the God Complex? (with pictures) @Wise Geek- “...These characteristics include arrogance, bullying or manipulating others, being judgmental and believing that he or she is never wrong....He or she also might try to exert a great deal of influence in various matters or relish having power, authority or control. “
- @Wikipedia - “The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they are unquestionably correct”
Fanaticism/Crank (person)
- @Wikipedia - "The fanatic displays very strict standards and little tolerance for contrary ideas or opinions."
- Fanaticism Is a Disease Like Alcoholism @ Psychology Today - "Whether they’re the leaders or the followers, fanatics are people who indulge in a heady, intoxicating and toxic concoction of self-affirming, know-it-all confidence that they have unique access to absolute truths, truths so perfect that they have to impose them on everyone....Fanaticism is a drug. Let loose on society it's like crack cocaine or alcohol only worse. Fanatics drive through life like alcoholics driving under the influence. They think they’re perfectly fine driving. They kill innocent bystanders, sometimes by the thousands or millions."
- @ Urban Dictionary - "Obsessive devotion combined with thoroughly invasive attempts to convert people to whatever is being devoted to."
- @Rational Wiki - "Fanatics' adherence to mainstream ideas makes them much more capable of doing damage, as they have ready access to, and influence over, a large body of non-fanatics who agree with their ideas. "
- Crank (person) - Etymology @ LiquiSearch
- Unified theory of the crank @ denialism blog - "They don’t care if some other crank or denialist comes along and challenges the prevailing theory by tossing cow manure, as long as what they’re shoveling stinks."
- @Wikipedia - ""Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.[1] A crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held as to be ludicrous. Cranks characteristically dismiss all evidence or arguments which contradict their own unconventional beliefs, making rational debate a futile task, and rendering them impervious to facts, evidence, and rational inference."
Imaginary audience
- Imaginary Audience - Adolescence, Adolescents, David, and Separation @ JRank Articles - "Having an imaginary audience is believed to result in the self-consciousness that is characteristic of adolescence and is often linked conceptually with personal fable, which involves having a strong belief in one's own uniqueness. "
- The Modern Ophelia: Imaginary Audience Syndrome @Modophelia - "Teenagers often have imaginary audience syndrome because they are egocentric. They think that the world revolves around them. Most of us at times have felt like we are constantly criticized, and that everyone is just waiting for us to slip up. When thinking that way, you put a lot of unhealthy and unrealistic pressure on yourself! The fact of the matter is that people don't remember the small things, and they most people don't spend their time searching for your flaws just because they feel like it.
- @ Very Well - "n egocentric adolescents believes that wherever he goes, everyone around him is as interested in him as he is in himself. He also believes his "audience" is continually commenting on his actions and appearance."
- @Wikipedia - "The imaginary audience refers to an egocentric state where an individual imagines and believes that multitudes of people are enthusiastically listening to or watching him or her. "
- The Imaginary Audience @ RyanHoliday.net - "Have you ever seen a person on YouTube who makes elaborate, time consuming videos day after day to a few views a piece? This person who gets objective reports on the audience for their work – as close to zero as numbers get – continues, in their own mind, to capture its attention."
- What is an Imaginary Audience? (with pictures) @ Wise Geek - "The imaginary audience is a psychological concept common to the adolescent stage of human development. It refers to the belief that a person is under constant, close observation by peers, family, and strangers. In reality, only a small percentage of those people have any interest in a person’s activities, and a maturing worldview will usually reduce the impression that this imaginary audience exists."
personal fable
- @ Wikipedia - Feelings of uniqueness may stem from fascination with one's own thoughts to the point where an adolescent believes that his thoughts or experiences are completely novel and unique when compared to the thoughts or experiences of others. "
- Personal fable by Alexis Richter on Prezi - "An adolescent’s belief that his or her thoughts, feelings, or experiences are unique, more wonderful or awful than anyone else’s."
Zersetzung
Psychological subversion
Structural abuse
- Lie - Tons of different types of lies. Be aware of them.
- Confidence trick
- Love bombing
- Pride-and-ego down
- Guilt society
- Shame society
- Defamation
- Abusive supervision
- Cyberbullying
- Hazing
- Military bullying
- Mobbing
- Parental bullying of children
- Passive aggression
- Peer victimization
- Relational aggression
- School bullying
- Sexual bullying
- Betrayal
- Blacklisting
- Bullying and emotional intelligence
- Bullying culture
- Character assassination
- Control
- Coercion
- Climate of fear
- Defamation
- Destabilisation
- Discrediting
- Embarrassment
- False accusation
- Gossip
- Harassment
- Humiliation
- Incivility
- Innuendo
- Insult
- Intimidation
- Kiss up kick down
- Mind games
- Moving the goalposts
- Nagging
- Name calling
- Personal attacks
- Psychological abuse
- Physical abuse
- Rudeness
- Sarcasm
- School pranks
- Setting up to fail
- Silent treatment
- Smear campaign
- Social undermining
- Taunting
- Teasing
- Whispering campaign
- Workplace incivility
- Verbal abuse
- Yelling
- Glittering generalities
- Demonizing the enemy
- Denialism
- discrediting tactics
- Puffery
- Overton window
- Hallin's spheres
- Ergo decedo
- Dog-whistle politics - For politics, but still be aware of it.
- Echo chamber (media)
- Straw man
- Door-in-the-face technique
- Foot-in-the-door technique
- Guilt by association
- Labelling
- Ignoratio elenchi
- Quoting out of context
- Half-truth
- Name calling
- Fear appeal
- Milieu control
- Attack ad
- Thought-terminating cliché
- Reductio ad Hitlerum
- Testimonial
- Pensée unique
- Third-party technique
- Ad hominem,
- Culture of fear
- Appeal to emotion - "Life would be better and more satisfying if you were thinner, prettier, happier." "think of your loved ones." "We all love and care for you."
- Demagogue
- You're either with us, or against us
- Dictat
- Alarrmism
- Black-and-white fallacy
- Fear, Uncertainty and doubt
- fear mongering
- Framing
- Unstated assumption
- Loaded Language
- Disinformation
- Narcotizing dysfunction
- Indoctrination
- Appeal to fear,
- Armed propaganda,
- Atrocity propaganda
- Bandwagon effect
- Big lie
- Blood libel
- Buzzword
- Card stacking
- Code word,
- Doublespeak
- Euphemism
- Glittering generality
- Historical revisionIism
- Ideograph
- Indoctrination
- Lawfare
- Lesser of two evils principle
- Loosely associated statements
- Newspeak
- Obscurantism
- Plain folks
- Spin
- Weasel word
- Whataboutism
- Transfer (propaganda)
- Lying by omission
- Deception ///beguilement // deceit // bluff// mystification // subterfuge
- Bad faith
- Doublespeak
- Cult of personality
- Reputation management
- Narcotizing dysfunction
- Managing the news
- Self-deception
- Dissimulation
- Media bias
- Think of the children
- cherry picking
- Sensationalism
- I'm entitled to my opinion
- or terrorists have won
- Persuasion
- False balance
- Obfuscation
- Agenda-setting theory
- Island mentality
- In-group favoritism
- Verisimilitude
- Truthiness
- Factoid
- Traumatic bonding
- Woozle effect
Authoritarian,Totalitarian, Fascist, Tyrannies
security and surveillance
Mind control / though police
2 + 2 = 5
Ochlocracy
Police state
Carceral archipelago
Autocracy
Absolute monarchy
Cult of personality
For the sake of this site, this can be diet guru's, diet culture & people who paint them as Gods or Goddesses for promoting an eating disorder & body dysmorphia.
Can also be in regards to sane culture & psychiatry. People push pharmaceutical drugs as if they are God's gift to the world when in reality they have killed thousands.Because these people are so perfect.
Can also be in regards to sane culture & psychiatry. People push pharmaceutical drugs as if they are God's gift to the world when in reality they have killed thousands.Because these people are so perfect.
The flawed logic behind diet studies and fatophobia
There IS No logic, just fatophobic bias behind diet culture.
"This portal contains all things logical (or illogical) in mathematics, science, debate and rational thinking. It will lead you to articles that will help debunk, refute, and otherwise fight the dark forces of poor and deceptive reasoning, and hopefully help you make your own arguments clearer and stronger."
People who push diets use some of these fallacies. You will be able to see them clearly when you see people pushing diets or weight loss once you make yourself familiar with them.
Woah, lotta Info!: Dieting = the same survival mindset as being tortured/12 stages of grief/same mindset as PTSD/ Body policing (1984 style) by WLI
There IS No logic, just fatophobic bias behind diet culture.
"This portal contains all things logical (or illogical) in mathematics, science, debate and rational thinking. It will lead you to articles that will help debunk, refute, and otherwise fight the dark forces of poor and deceptive reasoning, and hopefully help you make your own arguments clearer and stronger."
People who push diets use some of these fallacies. You will be able to see them clearly when you see people pushing diets or weight loss once you make yourself familiar with them.
Woah, lotta Info!: Dieting = the same survival mindset as being tortured/12 stages of grief/same mindset as PTSD/ Body policing (1984 style) by WLI
- List of fallacies @ Wikipedia
- The Skeptic's Field Guide
- Fallacy List @ Comm Faculty
- Master List of Logical Fallacies @ UTEP
- "For really strong anti gay people,it's harder to be antigay if you know what you hate about a person is something they can't change." - talking about LGBT rights but I feel it can apply to bodies, genders,etc. as well. - Ben Carson, When Did You Choose To Be Straight? uploaded by TYT @ YouTube
- Anecdotal Evidence
- anecdotal - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com
- How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results - Scientific American
- anecdotal (testimonial) evidence - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
- Anecdotal Evidence: Definition & Examples - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com
- Your logical fallacy is anecdotal
- Anecdotal evidence - RationalWiki
- Anecdotal Evidence
- Anecdotal evidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Cognitive Bias - "A cognitive bias refers to a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion.[1] Individuals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input.[2] An individual's construction of social reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behaviour in the social world.[3] Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationalit" @ Wikipedia
- Slippy Slope
- "A slippery slope argument (SSA), in logic, critical thinking, political rhetoric, and caselaw, is a consequentialist logical device in which a party asserts that a particular result will probably (or even must inevitably) follow from a given decision or circumstance, without necessarily providing any rational argument or demonstrable mechanism for the likelihood of the assumed consequence. A slippery slope argument proposes that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant (usually negative) effect, much like an object given a small push over the edge of a slope sliding all the way to the bottom.[1] The strength of such an argument depends on the warrant, i.e. whether or not one can demonstrate a process that leads to the significant effect. This type of argument is sometimes used as a form of fear mongering, in which the probable consequences of a given action are exaggerated in an attempt to scare the audience. The fallacious sense of "slippery slope" is often used synonymously with continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B. In a non-fallacious sense, including use as a legal principle, a middle-ground possibility is acknowledged, and reasoning is provided for the likelihood of the predicted outcome." - Wikipedia
- @Logically Fallacious
- @Rational Wiki
- @Fallacy Files
- Logical Fallacies
- Your Logical Fallacy Is
- @Nizkor Project
- Critical Thinking, Logic, and Argumentation (ReasonIO) @ Youtube
- A Fallacy Recognition Handbook - On the side there are tons.
- Fallacy Files
- Logically Fallacious (dot )com
- Appeal to fear
- "An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem) is a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by using deception and propaganda in attempts to increase fear and prejudice toward a competitor." - Wikipedia
- Propaganda Critic: Special apeals > Fear appeal
- Appeal to fear (scare tactics) @ Critical Thinking(dot) org (dot) uk - "X is a something to fear; therefore
Y should be implemented to prevent X....Appeals to fear work on our emotions and our general lack of ability to understand risk. They work by:Identifying a threat (real or imagined);Offering a prevention;Convincing others that the prevention will be effective;Convincing others that they are capable of facilitating the recommended prevention." - @Changing Minds
- Critical Thinking: The Fallacy of Appeal to Fear uploaded by Critical Thinking, Logic, and Argumentation (ReasonIO)
- @Logically Fallacious (dot)com
- @Nizkor Project
- Appeal to spite
- "An appeal to spite (Latin: argumentum ad odium) is a fallacy in which someone attempts to win favor for an argument by exploiting existing feelings of bitterness, spite, or schadenfreude in the opposing party. It is an attempt to sway the audience emotionally by associating a hate-figure with opposition to the speaker's argument.Fallacious ad hominem arguments which attack villains holding the opposing view are often confused with appeals to spite. The ad hominem can be a similar appeal to a negative emotion, but differs from it in directly criticizing the villain —that is unnecessary in an appeal to spite, where hatred for the villain is assumed." - Wikipedia
- Appeal to Spite uploaded by minniemouse1227's
- @Changing Minds
- Fallacy: Appeal to Spite @ Nizkor - "Claim X is presented with the intent of generating spite.Therefore claim C is false (or true)"
- Appeal to ridicule
- "Appeal to ridicule (also called appeal to mockery, ab absurdo, or the horse laugh[1]), is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd, ridiculous, or in any way humorous, to the specific end of a foregone conclusion that the argument lacks any substance which would merit consideration.Appeal to ridicule is often found in the form of comparing a nuanced circumstance or argument to a laughably commonplace occurrence or to some other irrelevancy on the basis of comedic timing, wordplay, or making an opponent and their argument the object of a joke. This is a rhetorical tactic that mocks an opponent's argument or standpoint, attempting to inspire an emotional reaction (making it a type of appeal to emotion) in the audience and to highlight any counter-intuitive aspects of that argument, making it appear foolish and contrary to common sense. This is typically done by making a mockery of the argument's foundation that represents it in an uncharitable and oversimplified way." - Wikipedia
- @Changing Minds
- @Logically Fallacious (dot) com
- @Nizkor Project
- A Fallacy Recognition Handbook - Appeal to Ridicule
- Appeal to consequences
- "Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin for "argument to the consequences"), is an argument that concludes a hypothesis (typically a belief) to be either true or false based on whether the premise leads to desirable or undesirable consequences. This is based on an appeal to emotion and is a type of informal fallacy, since the desirability of a premise's consequence does not make the premise true. Moreover, in categorizing consequences as either desirable or undesirable, such arguments inherently contain subjective points of view." - Wikipedia
- Logical Fallacy: Appeal to Consequences
- Appeal to consequences @ RationalWiki
- The Logical Fallacies: Appeal to Consequences @ One Good Move
- @Nizkor Project
- Logical Fallacies» Appeal to Consequences
- @Logically Fallacious (dot) com
- Appeal to emotions
- "Appeal to emotion or argumentum ad passiones is a logical fallacy characterized by the manipulation of the recipient's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence.[1] This kind of appeal to emotion is a type of red herring and encompasses several logical fallacies, including appeal to consequences, appeal to fear, appeal to flattery, appeal to pity, appeal to ridicule, appeal to spite, and wishful thinking.Instead of facts, persuasive language is used to develop the foundation of an appeal to emotion-based argument. Thus, the validity of the premises that establish such an argument does not prove to be verifiable.Appeals to emotion are intended to draw visceral feelings from the acquirer of the information. And in turn, the acquirer of the information is intended to be convinced that the statements that were presented in the fallacious argument are true; solely on the basis that the statements may induce emotional stimulation such as fear, pity and joy. Though these emotions may be provoked by an appeal to emotion fallacy, effectively winning the argument, substantial proof of the argument is not offered, and the argument's premises remain invalid." - Wikipedia
- @Nizkor Project
- Logical Fallacy: Emotional Appeal @ Fallacy Files
- @Rational Wiki
- @Changing Minds
- @Logically Fallacious (dot )com
- Your logical fallacy is:appeal to emotion
- Prison Industrial Complex - as found out about on Virgie Tovar's FB page. Isolation and bigotry.
- What is the Prison Industrial Complex? By Rachel Herzing,
- -"Such groups include corporations that contract prison labor, construction companies, surveillance technology vendors, companies that operate prison food services and medical facilities, private probation companies, lawyers, and lobby groups that represent them." - Wikipedia
- The Prison-Industrial Complex - The Atlantic - "The prison-industrial complex is not only a set of interest groups and institutions. It is also a state of mind. The lure of big money is corrupting the nation's criminal-justice system, replacing notions of public service with a drive for higher profits. The eagerness of elected officials to pass "tough-on-crime" legislation—combined with their unwillingness to disclose the true costs of these laws—has encouraged all sorts of financial improprieties. The inner workings of the prison-industrial complex can be observed in the state of New York, where the prison boom started, transforming the economy of an entire region; in Texas and Tennessee, where private prison companies have thrived; and in California, where the correctional trends of the past two decades have converged and reached extremes. In the realm of psychology a complex is an overreaction to some perceived threat. Eisenhower no doubt had that meaning in mind when, during his farewell address, he urged the nation to resist "a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties."
- The Power of Snark in the Age of TedTalk - Virgie Tovar: Lose Hate Not Weight - "I've spent the last two weeks traveling up and down North America - Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Portland, even Fresno! - giving a fake - and supremely snarky - TedTalk, in which I explain the history of the creepy ass dudes who pioneered the dietary reform movement (who were also big circumcision advocates), the connections between weighing yourself and the prison industrial complex, and also my suggestions for avoiding straight white dudes with hella privilege as a way of improving your cardiovascular health by a million healthy health points. "
- "Weight loss is so much about the internalization of capitalism and the prison industrial complex - the reduction of the human to a tradeable commodity, a number on a scale or a tag - devoid of identity." - Virgie Tovar
- Groupthink
- "Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints, by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences." - Wikipedia
- "Illusion of invulnerability –Creates excessive optimism that encourages taking extreme risks. Collective rationalization – Members discount warnings and do not reconsider their assumptions. Belief in inherent morality – Members believe in the rightness of their cause and therefore ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions. Stereotyped views of out-groups – Negative views of “enemy” make effective responses to conflict seem unnecessary.Direct pressure on dissenters – Members are under pressure not to express arguments against any of the group’s views.Self-censorship – Doubts and deviations from the perceived group consensus are not expressed.Illusion of unanimity – The majority view and judgments are assumed to be unanimous.Self-appointed ‘mindguards’ – Members protect the group and the leader from information that is problematic or contradictory to the group’s cohesiveness, view, and/or decisions." - What is Groupthink @ PsySR
- Groupthink - What is Groupthink - Definition & Examples @ Communication stories
- Groupthink @ Changing Minds
- What are some examples of groupthink in American history? @ Quora - Examples include Salem Witch Trials
- Examples of Groupthink @ Your Dictionary - Examples include: "A group of people who very firmly believe in one particular limited political ideal and who only watch news that supports their ideal and who only associate with people who agree with them. The group may come to hate and distrust people who disagree with them and may come to overestimate their power and influence. A group of employees at a company with a product that is quickly becoming outdated who are unwilling to consider new alternatives to advance in the industry. The employees may collectively live in a world where they can't understand why their product is not selling and may refuse to acknowledge the economic reality that they cannot survive without advancing. ." Or... people who think fat people can not be healthy despite the many numerous fat people who are healthy."
- "Groupthink is a phenomenon when a group of people get together and start to think collectively with one mind. The group is more concerned with maintaining unity than with objectively evaluating their situation, alternatives and options. The group, as a whole, tends to take irrational actions or overestimate their positions or moral rightness. " - Examples of Groupthink @ Your Dictionary
- Irving L. Janis' Victims of Groupthink on JSTOR
- Avoiding Groupthink:Avoiding Fatal Flaws in Group Decision Making @ Mind Toold - "Janis suggested that Groupthink happens when there is:
A strong, persuasive group leader.A high level of group cohesion.Intense pressure from the outside to make a good decision....Symptoms of Groupthink:
Rationalization:Peer Pressure:Complacency. Moral High Ground:Stereotyping:Censorship: - Groupthink occurs when a homogenous highly cohesive group is so concerned with maintaining unanimity that they fail to evaluate all their alternatives and options. Groupthink members see themselves as part of an in-group working against an outgroup opposed to their goals. You can tell if a group suffers from groupthink if it:overestimates its invulnerability or high moral stance, collectively rationalizes the decisions it makes, demonizes or stereotypes outgroups and their leaders, has a culture of uniformity where individuals censor themselves and others so that the facade of group unanimty is maintained, and contains members who take it upon themselves to protect the group leader by keeping information, theirs or other group members', from the leader." - Groupthink @ cmm
- What Is Groupthink? @ About
Target audience
BLUF (bottom line up front)
Faux scientific studies
Correlation does not imply causation
- Adam Ruins Nutrition | Adam's Sources | Adam Ruins Everything | truTV - they legit paid 300 dolalrs and had the episode's script admitted to a "scientific" journal.
- John Bohannon - Wikipedia - "Publishing under the name Johannes Bohannon, he produced a deliberately bad study to see how the media would pick up their findings. He worked with a film-maker Peter Onneken who was making a film about junk science in the diet industry with fad diets becoming headline news despite terrible study design and almost no evidence."
- Who's Afraid of Peer Review? by John Bohannon - Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" is an article written by Science correspondent John Bohannon that describes his investigation of peer review among fee-charging open access journals. Between January and August 2013, Bohannon submitted fake scientific papers to 304 journals owned by as many fee-charging open access publishers. The papers were designed with such grave and obvious scientific flaws that they should have been rapidly rejected by editors and peer reviewers, but 60% of the journals accepted them. The article and all of the associated data were published in the 4 October 2013 issue of Science as open access"
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Scientific Studies (HBO) @ YouTube
Correlation does not imply causation
Bullying
- Abusive supervision
- Cyberbullying
- Hazing
- Mobbing
- Passive aggression
- Peer victimization
- Sexual bullying
- Betrayal
- Blacklisting
- Bullying and emotional intelligence
- Bullying culture
- Control
- Coercion
- Climate of fear
- Defamation
- Destabilisation
- Discrediting
- Embarrassment
- False accusation
- Gossip
- Harassment
- Humiliation
- Incivility
- Innuendo
- Insult
- Intimidation
- Kiss up kick down
- Mind games
- Moving the goalposts
- Nagging
- Name calling
- Personal attacks
- Rudeness
- Sarcasm
- School pranks
- Silent treatment
- Smear campaign
- Social undermining
- Taunting
- Teasing
- Workplace incivility
- Verbal abuse
- Yelling
Conformity
- Authoritarian personality
- Bullying
- Collectivism
- Coercive persuasion
- Consensus reality
- Groupthink
- Hazing
- Herd mentality
- Indoctrination
- Memory conformity
- Milieu control
- Mobbing
- Nationalism
- Normalization
- Normative social influence
- Ostracism
- Panopticon
- Patriotism
- Peer pressure
- Peer review
- Pluralistic ignorance
- Propaganda
- Right-wing authoritarianism
- Scapegoating
- Social influence
- Socialization
- Spiral of silence
- Teasing
- Tyranny of the majority
- Xeer,
- Compliance
- Countersignaling
- Herd behavior
- Internalisation
- Social proof
- Obedience.
- Asch conformity experiments
- Milgram experiment
- Stanford prison experiment
.
Groupthink
- "GROUPTHINK IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON THAT OCCURS WITHIN A GROUP OF PEOPLE, IN WHICH THE DESIRE FOR HARMONY OR CONFORMITY IN THE GROUP RESULTS IN AN IRRATIONAL OR DYSFUNCTIONAL DECISION-MAKING OUTCOME. GROUP MEMBERS TRY TO MINIMIZE CONFLICT AND REACH A CONSENSUS DECISION WITHOUT CRITICAL EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINTS, BY ACTIVELY SUPPRESSING DISSENTING VIEWPOINTS, AND BY ISOLATING THEMSELVES FROM OUTSIDE INFLUENCES." - WIKIPEDIA
- "ILLUSION OF INVULNERABILITY –CREATES EXCESSIVE OPTIMISM THAT ENCOURAGES TAKING EXTREME RISKS. COLLECTIVE RATIONALIZATION – MEMBERS DISCOUNT WARNINGS AND DO NOT RECONSIDER THEIR ASSUMPTIONS. BELIEF IN INHERENT MORALITY – MEMBERS BELIEVE IN THE RIGHTNESS OF THEIR CAUSE AND THEREFORE IGNORE THE ETHICAL OR MORAL CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR DECISIONS. STEREOTYPED VIEWS OF OUT-GROUPS – NEGATIVE VIEWS OF “ENEMY” MAKE EFFECTIVE RESPONSES TO CONFLICT SEEM UNNECESSARY.DIRECT PRESSURE ON DISSENTERS – MEMBERS ARE UNDER PRESSURE NOT TO EXPRESS ARGUMENTS AGAINST ANY OF THE GROUP’S VIEWS.SELF-CENSORSHIP – DOUBTS AND DEVIATIONS FROM THE PERCEIVED GROUP CONSENSUS ARE NOT EXPRESSED.ILLUSION OF UNANIMITY – THE MAJORITY VIEW AND JUDGMENTS ARE ASSUMED TO BE UNANIMOUS.SELF-APPOINTED ‘MINDGUARDS’ – MEMBERS PROTECT THE GROUP AND THE LEADER FROM INFORMATION THAT IS PROBLEMATIC OR CONTRADICTORY TO THE GROUP’S COHESIVENESS, VIEW, AND/OR DECISIONS." - WHAT IS GROUPTHINK @ PSYSR
- GROUPTHINK - WHAT IS GROUPTHINK - DEFINITION & EXAMPLES @ COMMUNICATION STORIES
- GROUPTHINK @ CHANGING MINDS
- WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF GROUPTHINK IN AMERICAN HISTORY? @ QUORA - EXAMPLES INCLUDE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
- EXAMPLES OF GROUPTHINK @ YOUR DICTIONARY - EXAMPLES INCLUDE: "A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO VERY FIRMLY BELIEVE IN ONE PARTICULAR LIMITED POLITICAL IDEAL AND WHO ONLY WATCH NEWS THAT SUPPORTS THEIR IDEAL AND WHO ONLY ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE WHO AGREE WITH THEM. THE GROUP MAY COME TO HATE AND DISTRUST PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH THEM AND MAY COME TO OVERESTIMATE THEIR POWER AND INFLUENCE. A GROUP OF EMPLOYEES AT A COMPANY WITH A PRODUCT THAT IS QUICKLY BECOMING OUTDATED WHO ARE UNWILLING TO CONSIDER NEW ALTERNATIVES TO ADVANCE IN THE INDUSTRY. THE EMPLOYEES MAY COLLECTIVELY LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEIR PRODUCT IS NOT SELLING AND MAY REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ECONOMIC REALITY THAT THEY CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT ADVANCING. ." OR... PEOPLE WHO THINK FAT PEOPLE CAN NOT BE HEALTHY DESPITE THE MANY NUMEROUS FAT PEOPLE WHO ARE HEALTHY."
- "GROUPTHINK IS A PHENOMENON WHEN A GROUP OF PEOPLE GET TOGETHER AND START TO THINK COLLECTIVELY WITH ONE MIND. THE GROUP IS MORE CONCERNED WITH MAINTAINING UNITY THAN WITH OBJECTIVELY EVALUATING THEIR SITUATION, ALTERNATIVES AND OPTIONS. THE GROUP, AS A WHOLE, TENDS TO TAKE IRRATIONAL ACTIONS OR OVERESTIMATE THEIR POSITIONS OR MORAL RIGHTNESS. " - EXAMPLES OF GROUPTHINK @ YOUR DICTIONARY
- IRVING L. JANIS' VICTIMS OF GROUPTHINK ON JSTOR
- AVOIDING GROUPTHINK:AVOIDING FATAL FLAWS IN GROUP DECISION MAKING @ MIND TOOLD - "JANIS SUGGESTED THAT GROUPTHINK HAPPENS WHEN THERE IS:
A STRONG, PERSUASIVE GROUP LEADER.A HIGH LEVEL OF GROUP COHESION.INTENSE PRESSURE FROM THE OUTSIDE TO MAKE A GOOD DECISION....SYMPTOMS OF GROUPTHINK:
RATIONALIZATION:PEER PRESSURE:COMPLACENCY. MORAL HIGH GROUND:STEREOTYPING:CENSORSHIP: - GROUPTHINK OCCURS WHEN A HOMOGENOUS HIGHLY COHESIVE GROUP IS SO CONCERNED WITH MAINTAINING UNANIMITY THAT THEY FAIL TO EVALUATE ALL THEIR ALTERNATIVES AND OPTIONS. GROUPTHINK MEMBERS SEE THEMSELVES AS PART OF AN IN-GROUP WORKING AGAINST AN OUTGROUP OPPOSED TO THEIR GOALS. YOU CAN TELL IF A GROUP SUFFERS FROM GROUPTHINK IF IT:OVERESTIMATES ITS INVULNERABILITY OR HIGH MORAL STANCE, COLLECTIVELY RATIONALIZES THE DECISIONS IT MAKES, DEMONIZES OR STEREOTYPES OUTGROUPS AND THEIR LEADERS, HAS A CULTURE OF UNIFORMITY WHERE INDIVIDUALS CENSOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS SO THAT THE FACADE OF GROUP UNANIMTY IS MAINTAINED, AND CONTAINS MEMBERS WHO TAKE IT UPON THEMSELVES TO PROTECT THE GROUP LEADER BY KEEPING INFORMATION, THEIRS OR OTHER GROUP MEMBERS', FROM THE LEADER." - GROUPTHINK @ CMM
- WHAT IS GROUPTHINK? @ ABOUT
Psychological manipulation (diet culture, abstinence culture, beautiful culture does this..) & Propaganda techniques
- love bombing (diet culture, abstinence culture, beautiful culture does this..)
- Anger
- Character assassination
- Crying
- Emotional blackmail
- Fear mongering
- Frowning
- Glaring
- Guilt trip
- Inattention
- Intimidation
- Nagging
- Nit-picking criticism
- Passive aggression
- Punishment
- Relational aggression
- Sadism
- Shaming (name and shame)
- Silent treatment (blanking)
- Swearing
- Threats
- Yelling
- Abuse
- Advertising
- Bullying
- Catholic guilt
- Confidence trick
- Guilt culture
- Interrogation
- Jewish guilt
- Moral panic
- Media manipulation
- Mind games
- Mobbing
- Salesmanship
- Scapegoating
- Shame culture
- Smear campaign
- Social engineering (blagging)
- Spin
- Suggestibility
- Whispering campaign
- Blame
- Gullibility
- Gaming the system
- Distraction
- Shaming
- Victim blaming (you're fault you're fat, you're fault you're single because you are ugly..etc)
- Institutional betrayal
- Internalized oppression
- Intimidation
- Just-world hypothesis
- Enabling (body dysmorphia, self hatred)
- Impression management
- Humiliation
- Embarrassment (attempt to embarrass fat, ugly,etc people)
- Emotional blackmail
- Emotional dysregulation - who says who is normal and regular?
- Destabilisation
- Dirty tricks
- Coercion
- Control freak
- Bashing (pejorative)
- Mind control / brainwashing
- Mind games
- Culture of fear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mobbing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Victimology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Demagogue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Discrediting tactic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Reid technique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Pride-and-ego down - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Trojan horse (business) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Double bind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Entrapment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Cognitive distortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Deprogramming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Evasion (ethics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Indoctrination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Good cop/bad cop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- belittling
- discounting
- downplaying
- euphemism
- making light of
- meiosis
- minification
- minimize
- trivialising
- understating
- Minimization
- Bait-and-switch
- Deception
- Denial
- Deprogramming
- Disinformation
- Distortion
- Diversion
- Divide and rule
- Double bind
- Entrapment
- Evasion
- Exaggeration
- Gaslighting
- Good cop/bad cop
- Indoctrination
- Low-balling
- Lying
- Minimisation
- Pride-and-ego down
- Rationalization
- Reid technique
- Setting up to fail
- Trojan horse
- You're either with us, or against us
- Crowd manipulation
- Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment)
- Gift giving
- Bribery
- Ingratiation
- Superficial charm
- Crocodile tears
- Nudge theory
- Praise
- Dumbing_down
Vulnerabilities exploited by manipulators[edit]
According to Braiker's self-help book,[1] manipulators exploit the following vulnerabilities (buttons) that may exist in victims:
the "disease to please"
addiction to earning the approval and acceptance of others
Emotophobia (fear of negative emotion; i.e. a fear of expressing anger, frustration or disapproval)
lack of assertiveness and ability to say no
blurry sense of identity (with soft personal boundaries)
low self-reliance
external locus of control
According to Simon,[2] manipulators exploit the following vulnerabilities that may exist in victims:
naïveté - victim finds it too hard to accept the idea that some people are cunning, devious and ruthless or is "in denial" if he or she is being victimized.
over-conscientiousness - victim is too willing to give manipulator the benefit of the doubt and see their side of things in which they blame the victim.
low self-confidence - victim is self-doubting, lacking in confidence and assertiveness, likely to go on the defensive too easily.
over-intellectualization - victim tries too hard to understand and believes the manipulator has some understandable reason to be hurtful.
emotional dependency - victim has a submissive or dependent personality. The more emotionally dependent the victim is, the more vulnerable he or she is to being exploited and manipulated.
Kantor advises in his book,[3] the following are vulnerable to psychopathic manipulators involve being too:
dependent - dependent people need to be loved and are therefore gullible and liable to say yes to something to which they should say no.
immature - has impaired judgment and believes the exaggerated advertising claims.
naïve - cannot believe there are dishonest people in the world, taking for granted that if there were they would not be allowed to operate.
impressionable - overly seduced by charmers. For example, they might vote for the seemingly charming politician who kisses babies.
trusting - people who are honest often assume that everyone else is honest. They are more likely to commit themselves to people they hardly know without checking credentials, etc., and less likely to question so-called experts.
lonely - lonely people may accept any offer of human contact. A psychopathic stranger may offer human companionship for a price.
narcissistic - narcissists are prone to falling for unmerited flattery.
impulsive - make snap decisions about, for example, what to buy or whom to marry without consulting others.
altruistic - the opposite of psychopathic: too honest, too fair, too empathetic.
frugal - cannot say no to a bargain even if they know the reason it is so cheap.
materialistic - easy prey for loan sharks or get-rich-quick schemes.
greedy - the greedy and dishonest may fall prey to a psychopath who can easily entice them to act in an immoral way.
masochistic - lack self-respect and so unconsciously let psychopaths take advantage of them. They think they deserve it out of a sense of guilt.
the elderly - the elderly can become fatigued and less capable of multi-tasking. When hearing a sales pitch they are less likely to consider that it could be a con. They are prone to giving money to someone with a hard-luck story. See elder abuse."
Motivations of manipulators[edit]
Manipulators can have various possible motivations, including but not limited to:[1]
the need to advance their own purposes and personal gain at virtually any cost to others
a strong need to attain feelings of power and superiority in relationships with others
a want and need to feel in control (aka. control freak)
a desire to gain a feeling of power over others in order to raise their perception of self-esteem
boredom, or growing tired of his/her surroundings, seeing it as a game more than hurting others
covert agenda, criminal or otherwise, including financial manipulation (often seen when the elderly or unsuspecting, unprotected wealthy are intentionally targeted for the sole purpose of obtaining a victim's financial assets)