#Psychology
18 entries tagged Psychology.
People (7)
- Carl Rogers Influential humanistic psychologist who served on the board of the CIA's Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology front organization and received funding that helped establish his career in client-centered therapy.
- D.O. Hebb Canadian psychologist at McGill University who pioneered sensory deprivation research in the early 1950s with Canadian defense funding, publishing findings that attracted immediate CIA interest and laid the scientific foundation for coercive isolation techniques.
- David Wechsler Psychologist who developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and related tests, which formed the foundation of John Gittinger's CIA Personality Assessment System for evaluating and predicting behavior.
- J. Philippe Rushton J. Philippe Rushton was a British-Canadian psychologist at the University of Western Ontario and president of the Pioneer Fund whose book Race, Evolution, and Behavior applied r/K selection theory to claim a racial hierarchy of intelligence and behavior, work the scientific community condemned as racist and methodologically flawed.
- Philip Zimbardo Stanford psychologist who conducted the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrating that normal volunteers rapidly adopted abusive or submissive behavior when assigned to guard and prisoner roles, producing findings with implications for interrogation and captivity research.
- Richard Lynn Richard Lynn was a British psychologist who promoted hereditarian claims about racial and national differences in intelligence and 'dysgenics,' ran the Pioneer Fund and the Ulster Institute for Social Research, and whose national-IQ data was repudiated as fundamentally flawed.
- William Sargant British psychiatrist at St. Thomas' Hospital who built a theoretical framework linking religious conversion, political indoctrination, and interrogation compliance to identical physiological mechanisms, ran a decade-long coercive deep sleep ward at the Royal Waterloo Hospital in London that produced five documented deaths and widespread lasting harm, and served as an informal MI5 consultant while maintaining professional relationships with Ewen Cameron and other CIA-connected researchers.
Events (2)
- Pedophilia Pedophilia was often conflated with homosexuality by news and law enforcement agencies during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Serial Killer The serial killer profile emerged as a dominant framework in criminal investigations and popular media for understanding cases involving multiple murders.
Concepts (9)
- Cryptomnesia Cryptomnesia is a phenomenon where a forgotten memory reappears without being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is a new and original thought.
- Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative identity disorder, abbreviated as DID, emerged as a clinical concept describing a condition in which trauma induces dissociative states leading to the development of multiple distinct personalities within a single individual.
- False Memory Syndrome An academic movement which began in the early 1990s pointed toward the exponential growth in child sex abuse allegations as being the result of people recalling false memories.
- Glossolalia Glossolalia, commonly known as 'speaking in tongues,' is the phenomenon of uttering words or sounds that resemble language but are not understood by the speaker or listeners.
- Human Potential Human Potential refers to the inherent capabilities and untapped resources believed to exist within all individuals.
- Hypnotism Hypnotism was a significant area of government research in the twentieth century, particularly in CIA MKUltra experiments exploring induced amnesia, personality alteration, and the creation of unwitting operatives through hypnotic suggestion.
- Mind Control Mind control as a field of intelligence research emerged from the CIA program MKUltra, which sought to discover effective methods of modifying human behavior to create brainwashed operatives.
- Multiple Personality Disorder Multiple personality disorder functioned as the clinical term for what later became known as dissociative identity disorder, describing a condition in which an individual develops distinct alternative personalities, often as a result of severe or...
- Synchronicity Synchronicity is Carl Jung's concept of meaningful coincidences that lack causal connection, invoked in parapsychology research as a potential framework for understanding psychic phenomena that defy normal probability.