{"product_id":"dark-persuasion-a-history-of-brainwashing-from-pavlov-to-social-media-9780300247176","title":"Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \"highly readable and compelling\" account (Science) of brainwashings pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries  Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a generation ago led almost inevitably to todays misinformation  cyberbullying and cultlike behavior on the Internet.Dina Temple-Raston  Washington Post  This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches  his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin  setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social  political  and religious control.  Tracing these developments through many of the past centurys major conflagrations  Dimsdale narrates how when World War II erupted  governments secretly raced to develop drugs for interrogation. Brainwashing returned to the spotlight during the Cold War in the hands of the North Koreans and Chinese. In response  a huge Manhattan Project of the Mind was established to study memory obliteration  indoctrination during sleep  and hallucinogens. Cults used the techniques as well. Nobel laureates  university academics  intelligence operatives  criminals  and clerics all populate this shattering and dark storyone that hasnt yet ended.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651635732533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300247176","price":29.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300247176.jpg?v=1781836773","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dark-persuasion-a-history-of-brainwashing-from-pavlov-to-social-media-9780300247176","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}