What is the process of slavery and domestication? The ultimate goal of slavery is to manipulate others.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Stanford found a dozen ordinary college students without any mental problems and criminal records, and asked them to play some prison guards and some prisoners. In a real prison, a simulated game between prisoners and prison guards began. At the beginning, both sides regarded each other as guests in the experiment and followed the rules to complete the work that should be done in prison. However, with the increase of experimental time, some students who played prison guards began to torture prisoners by abuse and beating. Therefore, the experiment in Stanford prison had to stop.

Milgram obeyed the experiment.

The main flow of this experiment is that milgram, as the main test, lets the subject press the button to shock another subject (the shock device has no shock function, and the other subject is the actor found in the main test). When the electric shock is small, most subjects obey the requirements of the main test. With the gradual increase of electric shock, the subjects were in great pain, but they still performed electric shock as required.

In the experiment, only a few subjects chose to give up in the case of death by electric shock, and most of them insisted on electric shock until the end, although it was very painful.

1、PUA

This term, originally referring to the art of chatting up, has now generally referred to various scenes. "What CPU you" and "What KFC you" are all variants of pua.

Pua substitutes people into a wrong cognition through constant degradation and guidance, and makes people fall into it. Generally speaking, it is a kind of thinking manipulation.

The most basic method is to constantly reduce your self-awareness. Just like the entrance effect, he only makes very low demands at one time, and it is hard to refuse the next time. Pua is like this. Every time you reduce your cognition to an acceptable range, you will continue to suppress guidance. Finally, you will be trapped in a strange circle without his reinforcement.

2. Verification test

We often encounter this situation at school. For example, the class should organize a group activity and participate voluntarily. As a result, the whole class attended except you. At this time, the teacher will come and tell you that everyone else is involved. Why don't you go?

Do you want to know? Isn't it voluntary?

You promised, and the teacher didn't have to say anything; But if you don't agree, you may be said to have no sense of collective honor.

There are many such obedience tests in life, such as persuading wine, doing non-functional work, dating and so on. If you are obedient, you will be driven away; if you are disobedient, you will be discarded.

Step 3 follow the crowd

It can't be said that following the crowd is a kind of slavery. In a way, we follow the crowd voluntarily. But the point is that the social atmosphere leads to the risk of being abandoned if you don't join the group. This kind of cognition is deeply rooted in people's hearts. In order to integrate into society or satisfy one's vanity, conformity is easy to happen. In addition, in psychological research, there are two experiments related to domestication in the social environment:

1. Stanford prison experiment

2. milgram's obedience study.

The original purpose of these two studies is why ordinary citizens who are full of goodwill on weekdays will do harm and control others under special circumstances.

Through two experiments, we will find that domestication is actually social, that is, social status and social identity lead to different differences in people's actions.

In Stanford's experiment, prison guards, as superiors and managers, will have a sense of psychological superiority when they look at prisoners. When students really put themselves into the role of prison guards, their abuse, control and abuse of prisoners will become rational. If they break through the moral control, their behavior will have no lower limit.

In milgram's obedience test, subjects have to choose electric shock even if they are in pain, which is a domestication process. This domestication comes from people's submission to their superiors. This is similar to when we see an expert wearing a white coat and holding a business card in some advertisements expressing his opinions in the laboratory, you will trust this product more, even if this person is not necessarily an expert. The desire for strength and power buried in human psychology is also one of the reasons for slavery and domestication.