After days of numbness spent under the covers, Heidi Hough forced herself to do some serious reflecting, looking back to the last time she lived through a society founded on fear and fantasy. She’d gotten through it before, she could get through it again. For the past months, she’s been watching what appeared […]
“For as long as I can recall, I’ve been an easy mark for the pitches of peddlers, fund-raisers, and operators of one sort or another.” The Social Psychologist Robert Cialdini, a self-described “patsy”, or a person easily manipulated or tricked, wanted to understand what makes one person comply with another person’s “request”. To find answers, […]
On November 9, 2013, I found myself stepping out of a hotel into the pitch black darkness of the night as I tried to find my way to a drugstore located just across the street. I was with ChinChin Chua, the owner of the hotel, and a few other people I didn’t really know. […]
