MIT Proved AI Has Been Lying to Your Face

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AodgeFEBD2w

I Was an Evangelical Worship Leader, and Here’s How I Manipulated Crowds

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReWVZ6sgTMQ

6 Tricks Cult Leaders Use to Keep You In The Cult #psychology #politics

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFS_9hnuUc

 

Give me 11 Minutes and I'll Make you Dangerously Persuasive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32mGsWDWsDA

Charlie Kirk is using religion to trick young conservatives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wN6aBFCrjc

 

How Trump Controls Minds: A Chilling Psychological Breakdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDnmZifq2JM

 

How to DESTROY your opponent in any ARGUMENT (it's actually very easy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT8RvYSOB_w

 

Psychologist: How to influence anyone who disagrees with you

"Establishing a connection with someone, seeing them as a fellow human being, I think it goes a long way," Gray says… 

"My number one tip is if you go into these conversations trying to win you've already lost, because no one ever admits defeat when it comes to morality," he says…

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/psychologist-how-to-influence-anyone-who-disagrees-with-you.html

4 Ways Quacks Evade Criticism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGEDjd_Nqb4

The thinking error that makes people susceptible to climate change denial

Close examination of the arguments made by climate change deniers reveals the same mistake made over and over again. That mistake is the cognitive error known as black-and-white thinking, also called dichotomous and all-or-none thinking. As I explain in my book "Finding Goldilocks," black-and-white thinking is a source of dysfunction in mental health, relationships – and politics…

https://theconversation.com/the-thinking-error-that-makes-people-susceptible-to-climate-change-denial-204607

‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better | Friendship | The Guardian

In disagreements, too many of us think like preachers, prosecutors and politicians. In preacher mode, you're trying to proselytise your views. In prosecutor mode, you're attacking someone else's. And in politician mode, you don't even listen to people unless they already share your views. 

When I hear someone talk like a preacher or politician, I often snap into prosecutor mode. There are few things that offend me more than ignorance masquerading as knowledge. If I think you're wrong, I feel it's my professional responsibility as a social scientist – and my moral responsibility as a human being – to correct you. I've been called a logic bully. It took me too long to realise that hammering people with facts rarely wins the argument and sometimes loses the relationship. Whether you're preaching, prosecuting or politicking, you've already concluded that you're right and they are wrong. You've flipped a switch that shuts down your capacity for critical thinking…

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/30/you-cant-say-that-how-to-argue-better

How to Be Persuasive, According to Science - Part 2 (Thomas Smith and Dr. Lindsey Osterman; Serious Inquiries Only podcast #325)

Dr. Lindsey Osterman explains the rest of the persuasion review paper. This episode has a lot of good, practical info if you’re wanting to try to change minds, for real!

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-kccyx-12fd02f7

How To Be Persuasive, According to Science (Thomas Smith and Dr. Lindsey Osterman; Serious Inquiries Only podcast #324)

With so many people in our country seemingly living in an alternate universe of facts, persuading people to change their mind has never been more important. But… how can we actually do that? What actually works? Dr. Lindsey Osterman is here to science us about it!

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-tkrqk-12ed8acd

How To Be Persuasive, According to Science (Thomas Smith; Serious Inquiries Only podcast SIO324)

With so many people in our country seemingly living in an alternate universe of facts, persuading people to change their mind has never been more important. But... how can we actually do that? What actually works? Dr. Lindsey Osterman is here to science us about it!

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-tkrqk-12ed8acd

Argumentation 101 (Godless Rebelution podcast #351)

Everybody argues on the Internet, right? Are you tired of spinning your wheels and getting nowhere? Would you like your Internet battles to be less of a battle? More productive? More satisfying?

Well, you're in luck, because Taylor put together this episode to help make your time on the Internet a little less frustrating.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-hhthe-10ecd6b

Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising Republican victories in 2022 - The Washington Post

"It's Potemkin politics," said Tom Wheeler, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. "It raises deception to an art form, and it aids in the de-democratization of media and of public life."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-midterms-digital-influence/2021/04/03/391103a8-8c0e-11eb-a730-1b4ed9656258_story.html

How to Talk to Family Members Who Don't Share Your Politics | Time

"Facts are actually a trap," says Freeman. "They're not a gateway. You want to as much as possible to avoid arguing facts."

https://time.com/5937398/how-to-talk-to-family-members-about-politics/

Opinion | The Science of Changing Someone's Mind - The New York Times

Don't try to change someone else's mind. Instead, help them find their own motivation to change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opinion/change-someones-mind.html

The Psychology of Con Artists, and How to Avoid Them | Maria Konnikova |...

The history of the term "con artist" illuminates some essential traits of this lamentable profession. Maria Konnikova explains that the first con artist was a Manhattan watch thief who would prey on the goodwill of his victims, asking to borrow their watch until the following day. Of course the watch was never returned and the confidence invested by the victim in the thief was also lost. Indeed the con artist is more of a psychologist than a thief. Con artists will never steal anything from you, says Konnikova, they'll convince you to hand it over freely.
https://youtu.be/hSlBiMdlyyU

Trump got nearly half of America to vote for him and it's heartbreaking

The most dangerous implication of this election is that millions accept a fictitious world created by an autocrat and marketed by Fox News....

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/11/05/half-america-supports-donald-trump-heartbreaking-column/6165245002/