Estelle PlatiniOct 20, 2023

"Duterte said: you can kill legally because they might fight back. They will fight back. And that was the loop of the narrative. They are drug addicts; therefore, they are armed. Because they are drug addicts, they will fight back. And, if they fight back, they must die."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-journalist-exposes-the-philippines-extralegal-killings

#trauma #journalism #warOnDrugs #Philippines #policeViolence #drugWar #stateViolence #killings #security #populism #commOdon @socialpsych #resentment #NewYorker #Duterte #neighborhood #institutions #confidence #anger #violence #narrative #storyTelling

A Journalist Exposes the Philippines’ Extralegal Killings

David Remnick speaks with the reporter Patricia Evangelista about the country’s drug wars, Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous rhetoric, and what it’s like to cover trauma.

The New Yorker
Show threadEstelle Platini

William Hirst says that a #narrative that leaves out information “induces forgetting of the unmentioned material.”

#Talking about other parts of the story actively leads people to forget what is not discussed. “We seem to have a brain that is designed to build a collective memory around collective remembering and collective forgetting,” he explains. “Why? It’s adaptive. We’re social creatures oriented toward our in-group and away from out-groups. Memory is designed to reinforce our in-group membership.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/trump-pandemic-amnesia/ @psychology @socialpsych @histodons

#conversations #memory #Trump #campaign #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #pandemic #pandemics #Covid19 #humans #psychology #remembering

Millions have amnesia about the worst of Trump's presidency. Memory experts explain why.

How Trump is benefiting from the limits of our memory.

Mother Jones
Sep 23, 2024 at 9:08pmWeb
Show threadEstelle PlatiniApr 16, 2025

a few notes on a Linda Rising's talk

"Realize up front that this is hard".

Cognitive dissonance: contradictory "evidence" causes severe cognitive discomfort.

* We are not rational decision-makers
* but we are good at explaining after-the-fact why we made a decision – a pattern called rationalization.

Two thirds of people will not consider an idea until "somebody they know pretty well, is doing it, is happy with it, talks about it […] so maybe i might think about it".
To convince,
* you must address: "What's in it for me?" – requires empathy;
* you can use the values of your opponent. (Loyalty or fairness?)

A pattern of personal touch: walk a mile in the other's shoes
Another pattern: "Give it a try"
Another pattern: listen
Another pattern: ask for something personal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrCD1wmK9oM via @matthew

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Meeting Resistance & Moving Forward • Linda Rising • GOTO 2017

YouTube
Show threadEstelle PlatiniJun 11, 2025

“There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news. The simple association with it is enough to stimulate our dislike.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, in his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion", 1984

#manipulation #persuasion #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini

Show threadEstelle PlatiniJun 14, 2025

"Subjective validation, sometimes called personal validation effect, is a cognitive bias by which people will consider a statement or another piece of information to be correct if it has any personal meaning or significance to them. People whose opinion is affected by subjective validation will perceive two unrelated events (i.e., a coincidence) to be related because their personal beliefs demand that they be related."

CC-BY-SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_validation 🧶

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Subjective validation - Wikipedia

Show threadEstelle PlatiniAug 10, 2025

“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, 1984

#manipulation #persuasion #validation #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini #book

Show threadGatekeeper..Sep 24, 2024
@estelle @psychology @socialpsych @histodons
Somebody taught Trump to switch subjects when he has no answer, which is most of the time. It's daunting trying to follow him. He's messed up.
Show thread2¢Apr 7, 2025
@estelle @psychology @socialpsych @histodons perhaps the new narrative supplants the previous references that sustained the memory. Mnemonic nullification.