British mentalist Derren Brown shows us how to easily brainwash people
It's a disturbing thought but we are influenced heavily by our environment. How free is our free will?
How free is our free will? How strong is will? How far away can we move from our convictions, from our strongly-held beliefs when we are pressured to conform and to obey authority? Can our personalities and deeply held convictions be modified under pressure from powerful authority figures?
Derren Brown, British mentalist and magician, shows us how he is able to easily hypnotize people and get them to want what he wants them to want. Yes, you read that right. He makes a choice as to what you should want, and he makes you choose it. Furthermore, he convinces you that it was your idea all along. You will tell yourself that it was your choice from the beginning.
You see, most of us are unaware of how we are influenced by other people and the environment in which we find ourselves. We want to believe that we make our own independent choices, but do we?
It's rather creepy and sinister, how quickly Brown is able to manipulate people.
But is this real? Or is it some sort of hoax?
In fact, many psychological studies, such as the Prison Experiment and the Milgram Experiment shows that people can be easily manipulated, that people do obey authority figures and that people will conform, even when doing so means doing something they may feel is morally or ethically wrong...
Most of us don't want to think of ourselves as easily manipulated but research shows otherwise.
Here is the audio podcast: Ep.71-How easy is it to brainwash people? Derren Brown shows us how
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