brainwashing

process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated"
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brainwashing

Summary

brainwashing ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (975 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • brainwashing's GND ID is recorded as 4156324-4[2].
  • brainwashing's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85016371[3].
  • brainwashing's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119322355[4].
  • brainwashing's subclass of is recorded as change[5].
  • brainwashing's subclass of is recorded as management cybernetics[6].
  • brainwashing's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00570712[7].
  • brainwashing's Commons category is recorded as Brainwashing[8].
  • brainwashing's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q9610 (ben)-Helperofhumanity-মগজধোলাই.wav[9].
  • brainwashing's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000096965[10].
  • brainwashing's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 54518[11].
  • brainwashing's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/058bq[12].
  • brainwashing's MeSH tree code is recorded as L01.143.762.500[13].
  • brainwashing's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph353328[14].
  • brainwashing's described at URL is recorded as https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111450858-003/html[15].
  • brainwashing's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 153.853[16].
  • brainwashing's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10637439[17].
  • brainwashing's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/brainwashing[18].
  • brainwashing's has effect is recorded as mind control[19].
  • brainwashing's BBC Things ID is recorded as da999467-cd7b-430a-9815-c489215ad9ee[20].
  • brainwashing's different from is recorded as mind control[21].
  • brainwashing's different from is recorded as mind control[22].
  • brainwashing's uses is recorded as useful idiot[23].
  • brainwashing's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121ybk_6[24].
  • brainwashing's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as coercive-persuasion[25].
  • brainwashing's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as hjernevask[26].

Why It Matters

brainwashing ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (975 views/month).[1] brainwashing has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] brainwashing is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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