About this episode

The episode discusses Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials, focusing on the use of repetitive recorded messages to influence psychiatric patients' thoughts.

Interesting Things with JC #1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials" – A recorded message keeps playing for up to 20 hours a day while psychiatric patients are isolated from competing stimuli, and the same phrase continues repeating thousands of times as researchers attempt to reshape thought itself.

People in this episode

Host: JC

Topics covered

• psychiatry
• research
• thought reshaping
• stimuli isolation
• acoustic masking

Keywords

• Subproject 68
• Acoustic Masking Trials
• psychiatric patients
• stimuli
• thought reshaping

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