Cults, totalitarian governments, abusive marriages...  ...through psychology. The shortcut term for this is brainwashing . Alexandra Stein was a member of one such cult, a...  ...e such cult, and later wrote about the process of brainwashing . Her PhD dissertation examined the tactics of a p...

The word " brainwashing " came about because of the Cold War. In the 1950s...  ...over. That was unthinkable.Suddenly the threat of brainwashing was very real, and it was everywhere. The U.S. mi...  ...ould explain the behavior of the soldiers besides brainwashing ? The idea of m...

Michael Hacker's washing machine is set to permanent press and is ready for your cerebral cortex. Just put it in. No, there's no dryer. You'll have to hang it to dry.Most Neatorama readers will probably have to run two s...