Brainwashing doesn’t always look dramatic; it often employs subtle tactics to bypass critical thinking and reshape beliefs and identities. Indeed, various models have been proposed over the years to ...

Why are voters mindlessly destroying our democracy? Supporting communism instead of having freedom is factual proof that there are naive voters voting in our elections. Presently, government is ...

Men have always fought for control over the minds of their fellows, but it is only recently—largely because of the furor over brainwashing—that the methods of gaining such control have been openly and ...

As sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo stands trial this week, his insanity defense relies on a controversial claim rarely heard in courtrooms: The defendant was brainwashed to kill. But whether Malvo is a ...

Harvard historian Rebecca Lemov on the history of brainwashing and its implications today. Radiolab is an award-winning podcast that explores the edge where science, philosophy and human experience ...

Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term ...