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AcademyInfluence and the Cognitive Domain

Six Techniques, Six Defenses

This lesson takes 12 minutes.

Objectives

  • Identify emotional activation, repetition, social proof, selective disclosure, framing and saturation
  • Match each to its defense

Video

Influence & Persuasion. Crash Course · Media Literacy #6. Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Lesson

Each technique has a practiced defense. Slow down when emotion spikes. Count origins, not echoes. Ask what the evidence is, not how many agree. Ask what a complete sample would show. Restate the claim in neutral words. Pick one claim and verify it before moving on.

Spotting a technique tells you how a claim is being sold, not whether it is true. LastPsyOp™’s constraint applies: messaging alone does not prove an influence operation. Demonstrate the mechanism.

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