Obama Advisor Promotes "Cognitive Infiltration"

[Jan Klimkowski]

Ed - important find. Thank you.

Let's put some meat on them thar spooky bones.

The paper below is written by two Stanford University psychologists and one Stanford University psychiatrist.

Here's the ostensible academic rationale for the research:

The psychological impact of viewing the film JFK: emotions, beliefs, and political behavioral intentions

Abstract
Oliver Stone's controversial film, JFK induced an array of psychological sequelae in an educated, politically diverse audience seeing the film under natural circumstances. Fifty-three adults were surveyed as they entered a theater to see the film, while another 54 respondents answered the same questions as they exited from seeing the film. The film significantly aroused anger and changed beliefs toward accepting the broad conspiracy hypothesis of multiple agents and agencies involved in the Kennedy assassination and its cover-up. The film's impact on moods, beliefs, and judgments was found to be specific to the themes and persuasive message of the film and did not carry over to general political judgments or to perceptions of conspiracies in viewers' own lives, with one exception: viewing JFK was associated with a significant decrease in viewers' reported intentions to vote or make political contributions. A general helplessness effect is proposed to account for the increase in feelings of anger and hopelessness and the decrease in intentions to vote or make political contributions.

Feedback loop.

Definition: the causal path that leads from the initial generation of the feedback signal to the subsequent modification of the event