Reply #31: Resistence to brainwashing

[suegeo]

I read somewhere that people with a sense of humor are better able to resist brainwashing. This conclusion was reached in some study about the guys coming back from Korea, when brainwashing was being practiced on them.

Brainwashing techniques include use of slogans (complex ideas reduced to a couple of words), good/cop bad cop (tension & release) and I think repetition.

Anyway, the guys they couldn't get brainwashed were the ones who found humor in what the brainwashers were trying to do.

This is just what I read, so take it for what it is worth. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on tv.