New Book and New Blog

Never in human history have so many professions made influencing the masses their primary or secondary goals. Most of those professionals are motivated by desire for fortune and fame. A few others sincerely believe that they, and they alone, know what is best for society, in general, and for you, in particular. And the professional influencers are not billeted only in America, Russia, China, or Korea. Virtually every country has its own professional influence warriors. All of them train and research tactical strategies, and all employ the latest high tech influence weapons.

After years of concern, I decided to blow the whistle on the practice.  As a psychologist, myself, I am troubled by the ways that psychologists have been deployed in the influence wars. Psychology research too often has facilitated methods of mass manipulation. Accordingly, I recently published a new book, Justifiably Paranoid: Resisting Intrusive and Malicious Influences, and I also began a new blog, https://resistingintrusivemaliciousinfluences.blogspot.com/ 

Unlike the manipulators, I do not have a self-serving agenda and I do not profess to know what is best for you. I do know that you, and you alone, are qualified to determine the influences that should be accepted and rejected. I expect and encourage you to be as justifiably suspicious of the information that I present in my books and blogs as you would be of that contained in any other. I look forward to your feedback on the new book and blog.