marie baribeau's List: Project #2

• "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual – 1983"
• to induce psychological regression
• s the subject regresses, his learned personality traits fall away in reverse chronological order. He begins to lose the capacity to carry out the highest creative activities, to deal with complex situations, or to cope with stressful interpersonal relationships or repeated frustrations."
• transmogrification
• Pain is also unsharable in that it is resistant to language
• Kafkaesque mutation
• he development of compulsive rituals to fend off obsessive thoughts.
• Bystanders resent the tortured because the tortured make the bystanders feel guilty and ashamed for having done nothing to prevent the atrocity. The sufferers threaten their sense of security and their much-needed belief in predictability, justice, and rule of law.
• "It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering."
• Victimhood is a stage, not a destination.
• the cycle repeats itsel
• despite their best efforts, most victims victimize less capable people
• under the right circumstances and with the appropriate encouragement and setting, most people can be encouraged to actively torture others
• Many young men have 'taken up the game' and have thereby passed from mental health and stability into terrifying states of decay, from which some will probably never recover."

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• disgust has an instinctual and a socially constructed aspect.
• a genetically transmitted progressive neurodegenerative disease, are unable to recognize expressions of disgust in others and also don't show reactions of disgust to foul odors or tastes.^[3] The inability to recognize disgust in others appears in carriers of the Huntington gene before other symptoms appear.^[4]
• eactions of disgust are often built upon prejudices that should be challenged and rebutted

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• "Theory of mind" is the ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc.—to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs, desires and intentions that are different from one's own.
• Premack
• 30 years
• Woodruff'
• species which we do not yet describe as "minded"
• incomplete understanding
• to extrapolate internal mental states from observable behavior.
• the evolution of human social cognition.
• evidence of risk-based learning
• without necessarily attributing knowledge
• learn through experience
• leading to certain responses

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