child abuse,gullibility and...

[undergroundpanther]

Profits..

This study says adverse events can encourage a person to not trust in their own judgement..This constant self doubt of ones own perceptions and judgments is making them vulnerable to influence through ads,manipulators,con men,sociopaths...ect.This is all very interesting when you look at how LITTLE our country invests in child protection and child safety and abuse intervention/prevention and little it is funded and how overworked the social workers child advocates etc are..How much bullies ,sociopaths, abusers and other people who just like to take advantage and screw up others.people who lie or have conduct disorders..It's really scary considering how often these thugs get away with their games and abuses...It looks as if bullies since they gravitate to places of social power and usually seem so"upstanding" definitely write the laws and allocate state funds to benefit their own corrupted mind/kind. Sociopaths are the very real,personality problem in humans. Sociopaths/authoritarians and conduct disordered asshole bullies are why things never seem to get better for the majority in this world in any lasting way..I think..
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Psychologists discover adversity makes people more susceptible to suggestion and lies

People who have suffered life's hard knocks while growing up tend to be more gullible than those who have been more sheltered, startling new findings from the University of Leicester reveal.

A six-month study in the University's School of Psychology found that rather than 'toughening up' individuals, adverse experiences in childhood and adolescence meant that these people were vulnerable to being mislead.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2006/05/nparticle.2006-05-23.9962988556

Contrast that with THIS:

These people tend to embrace a particular and often limited belief system to the exclusion of others. They have no doubts. Typically these belief systems have an internal logic. Actions based on the belief system often produces the desired and predicted outcomes. Their views do not stand up to criticism when alternative understandings are used. Views applicable to some activities in society may be given universal relevance and applied to activities where they are clearly inappropriate. These views or their application should not be acceptable to society but society frequently identifies uncritically with their logic and fails to challenge them.

Sociopath individuals are extremely self-confidant, intelligent, charismatic and persuasive of others as well as themselves. They inspire those around them and create a dysfunctional culture, - often dizzy and disoriented by its success. Success is proof of the accuracy of any claim they make.

http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/health/sociopathy.html

[MichiganVote]

1. Its called a reliance on the defense mechanism--denial

[Mythsaje]

2. Well, you know some high-brow came up with THIS theory...

Or haven't they ever heard of street smarts? You ONLY get street smarts by taking hard knocks. They can't really be taught.

[Lilith Velkor]

3. They can't be bought either

However, a sheltered life for the kids can be bought.

And if studies show that sheltered kids are smarter, why, that's a good motivation to be a more shameless money grubber, innit?

[Le Taz Hot]

4. I SO disagree with this!

Incredible what one can come up with with "studies" having NOTHING to do with real life. I never get into specifics but suffice it to say, I've had personal experience with this. The opposite is actually true, at least half the time. This is the psychology: You grow up in an environment in which you are always told "you're stupid," "you're wrong," etc., As a reaction people have a tendancy to go one of two ways: 1) They believe the bullshit and, therefore, assume EVERYONE but them is right. 2) After finding out the hard way they've been lied to for years, they trust no one. I've also known people who were protected while growing up, and I mean from EVERYTHING adverse, and ended up being gullible to all kinds of con artists and sociopaths. I could go one but, for obvious reasons, I'm stopping there.