Influence

Religion can Improve Your Self-Control — even if you don’t believe in God or the gods

Robert T. Gonzalez discusses new studies that determine that religion can improve your self-control — even if you don’t believe in God which is a fascinating exploration. Think your beliefs preclude you from being influenced by religious thoughts? Think again. Psychologists at Queen’s University have demonstrated that test subjects who are primed to think subconsciously…

Folding Multiple Orgasms into One Another and into Themselves to create Pretty Damned Awesome Orgasmic eXperiences!

Now, imagine you have one orgasm coming up over the pleasure horizon . . . now . . . imagine you can take that orgasm and you can slow it down . . . you don’t slow down the intensity, no, actually the pleasure of the experience intensifies as you slow it down, almost as…

Troxler Effect and Monsters in the Mirror

I know you’ve seen ’em . . . in the bathroom at night, looking into the mirror and you notice the reflection looking back at you doesn’t seem right . . . there’s something off about that face, it’s staring at you . . . and the eyes aren’t your eyes, they’re the eyes of…

Psychedelic Trance, Psychedelic Hypnosis

Recently, I was having a conversation with a very very good friend about the mechanics behind the famous Drug of Choice Induction/Pattern used by NLP practitioners first developed by Bandler and often used with drug addicts as a way to demonstrate that they can recreate the benefits or positive aspects of a drug high without…

Creepy People Try To Seem Normal But Fail

From the moment he steps onscreen in the 1960 thriller Psycho, Norman Bates gives audiences the goosebumps. The hotel manager-turned-serial killer just seems, well, off, maybe because he’s trying so hard to appear normal. Now a new study suggests that people who fail to appropriately imitate the mannerisms of others during social interactions can actually…

How to Spot a Scoundrel: Fidgeting and Trust

“Imagine the original job interview. The first one ever, back on the prehistoric savannahs of eastern Africa. It wouldn’t have been exactly like a modern job interview, because early humans had no resumes or Linked-In or letters of recommendation to guide them. There was very little in the way of personal or professional reputation to…

William J. Bennett misses the Point

William J. Bennet has written an intriguing piece on how he believes “hookup culture is degrading to women” but he misses the point on the nature of entertainment media and the portrayal of certain consenting adult activities. The culture of “consensual slavery” as portrayed in EL James’ “Fifty Shades of Gray” has very little to…

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Compliance Director Heckled for Truth in Filmmaking

Craig Zobel, director of the new film Compliance, was heckled after the screening of the film at Sundance as some folks found the portrayal of a young woman being sexually abused too powerfully misogynist and what some viewers found to be so extreme as to be unbelievable. However, Zobel’s story of a woman sexually abused…

Social Influence Webinar Audio Recording

On 15 January 2012, Brian David Phillips conducted an online workshop on SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Introduction to Hidden Persuasion Operators via online webinar chat. The SOCIAL INFLUENCE online webinar session is an introduction to key concepts explained along with the discussion of basic tenets of social influence and social psychology. This downloadable recording is the complete…

Mr P does Walkabout Trance at the Edge

Street Hypnotist Mr. P demonstrates some Walkabout Trance style hypnosis at The Edge by hypnotizing a young woman in the shop. He’s got some skills. One thing I like about the video is that he shows a genuine engagement and fun with the process. When Meg shows that she is an obvious high responder during…

SOCIAL INFLUENCE – 15 Jan 2012 – Free Online Webinar

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Chris Hedges on Influence, Information, and Declining American Empire and more

An excellent interview of Chris Hedges on the C-Span book.tv author’s focus well worth the listen. Hedges is a complex author who explores information and propaganda and more. In this interview, he takes questions from the audience and responds regarding issues that are far reaching and diverse. Very much worth watching . . . regardless…

Social Influence and Communication video course editing

For those who have been asking . . . I am editing our comprehensive SOCIAL INFLUENCE & COMMUNICATION video course and the editing will be done soon (very soon). Actually, the folks who are attending the WALKABOUT TRANCE THREE and EROTICATRANCE TWO events in Los Angeles in February will be the first ones to whom…