Profiling and Manipulating Human Behaviour: A Core Contemporary Privacy Concern

Human behaviour is constructed by unconscious drives and impulses. To Freud, thoughts are supposed to be guided by desires and these desires are the fundamental basis of humankind, life, and psyche. Not being expressed directly, they take other shapes in order to be expressible in personal and social situations. They are repressed because they could not be fitted into social norms and laws. Freud believes that many of our actions are motivated by psychological forces unknown to others which he calls ‘the unconscious’. The objective of the present paper is to read Munro's Runaway in the mirror of Sigmund Freud to detect the psychological aspects of the characters.

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Magistri Legis. Eine Studie zur dogmatischen Funktion im industriellen System

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung ◽

10.28937/1000106342 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 69-112

Author(s):

Pierre Legendre

Keyword(s):

Social Function ◽

Modern Human ◽

Human Behaviour ◽

Cultural Reproduction ◽

Industrial System ◽

The West ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Law ◽

New Look

"Der Beitrag reevaluiert die «dogmatische Funktion», eine soziale Funktion, die mit biologischer und kultureller Reproduktion und folglich der Reproduktion des industriellen Systems zusammenhängt. Indem sie sich auf der Grenze zwischen Anthropologie und Rechtsgeschichte des Westens situiert, nimmt die Studie die psychoanalytische Frage nach der Rolle des Rechts im Verhalten des modernen Menschen erneut in den Blick. </br></br>This article reappraises the dogmatic function, a social function related to biological and cultural reproduction and consequently to the reproduction of the industrial system itself. On the borderline of anthropology and of the history of law – applied to the West – this study takes a new look at the question raised by psychoanalysis concerning the role of law in modern human behaviour. "

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The ‘Psychology’ of Polygraph’: Engendering Differential Salience - Concerns and Caveats

Journal of Psychological Research ◽

10.30564/jpr.v2i2.1465 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Friedo Herbig

Keyword(s):

Language Proficiency ◽

Human Behaviour ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Test Procedures ◽

Behaviour Modification ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Governing Body ◽

Per Se ◽

Emotional Salience ◽

Polygraph Examination

The ‘success’ of a polygraph examination is predicated on the establishment of differential or emotional salience (a ‘psychological set’) with an examinee. This, according to polygraph proponents, guarantees that an examinee will respond appropriately during the administration of the in-test (questioning) phase of the polygraph examination. However, polygraph procedure, as prescribed by its governing body, the American Polygraph Association (APA), is a static clinical Westernised process that does not make any provision for human multiplicity (culture/ethnicity, idiosyncrasies, level of education, language proficiency, ideologies, and so forth). Identical (one size fits all) test procedures are applied across the board – a highly controversial methodology. This article, instead of rigidly focusing on validity and reliability issues per se, explores the degree to which certain intentional and unintentional human behaviour modification strategies have the potential to counterbalance claimed polygraph rectitude from a metaphysical and discursive standpoint. The article exposes concerns (potential flaws) relating to polygraph theory in the context of the ‘psychological set’ and is intended to serve as a caveat regarding the unmitigated use thereof.

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