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Andrew C. Tyler C. Andrew N.

Assignment
5. Define psychological intimidation and discuss how it works. How is it being used today? Record a PSA that critiques how a current government uses psychological intimidation and compare it with the tactics of the Orwellian “Party.”

Script
Screen fades into a view from the center mirror of a car looking to the right driver seat. In the seat is a scared teenager who has sweat rolling down the side of his face.White letters at the bottom of the screen say Name: Andrew Cary Age: 17 Time: 12:00, Midnight Lisence plate Number: R65G46

The screen fades out to the right drivers side, giving a view of both the driver and the [|officer walking up to the drivers side of the vehicle]. (Andrew Rolls down the window)

Screen goes to 3rd image of Narrator: The suspect, Andrew handing the Car, was pulled over by officer Neville, under the pretense that Andrew was doing 30 in a 25 zone. Known to Andrew, there was a posted speed limit sign of 30mph less than .1 miles behind them. It was clear that Andrew was being profiled for his liscense and is visually very scared. Shot shows both age. Narrator: The officer checks Andrew's lisence and registration, and asks Andrew and to step outside the vehicle. Again, Andrew has done nothing to provoke officer Neville, and has given no sign that he was doing anything illigal that night. Narrator: Finally, Officer Neville asks permission to search Narrator: Andrew was within the time of kirfew and obeying the posted speed limit, yet officer Neville noted the young age of the driver and stopped him, with no probable cause. Andrew was simply stopped because he was the wrong age. If this happens to you, do not let the police use psychological intimidation on you, stay strong and force the officer to obey your rights like Andrew does. Andrew does not give officer Neville the right to search his vehicle and resists the psychological intimidation Officer Neville imposes on Andrew, such as threatening to call his parents or to take him in if he did not consent. Despite this abuse from the front of the car. Shot of the officer searching the back of the car, looking in through the window. Text on the bottom of the screen reads "Officers intent: search vehicle." Text saying "Cary's response..." and then a shot of Andrew angrily pointing his finger at stronger, wittier, and better looking, Officer Neville, clearly showing Andrew stays firm in his discontent with the officers search of his car. Text appearrs saying that Teens are unjustly pulled over every right to privacy. In the end, the day for their age, not their actions. Text saying that teens are pushed to give up their rights, and should not give into the is won by Andrew because he opposed psychological intimidation of police officers. Final shot of Andrew and the officer saying "Defend your rights, Oppose police intimidation" imposed by the police.

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Psychological intimidation Today
Like the telescreens in 1984, North Korea uses [|propoganda boxes] to spill out propaganda and intimidate those listening. The box can be turned down, but never off.

[|Bullies] and their tactics/motivations => Psychologists and behavior researchers have only seriously studied mobbing--group bullying--among students since the beginning of the 1980s, led in large part by Norwegian psychologist Dan Olweus of the University of Bergen. In his pioneering study of Swedish and Norwegian students, Olweus concluded that children can be very skilled in systematically using their social clout at the expense of weaker schoolmates. The goal is to enhance their own position. Mobbing thrives in hierarchical settings because they allow dominance and strength to reign as the measure of an individual's social value. It is therefore not surprising that prisons and military bases, with their emphasis on rules and rank, are often the scenes of mobbing. Schools, in which older or stronger children can lord their age and power over younger or weaker ones, share similar traits. Thrown into a diversity of personalities, certain individuals try to create a social structure that confers on them an advantage. And usually that power is wielded to abuse others.



**Psychological Intimidation Defined**
George Orwell [|once said], "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

Orwell’s depiction may be more violent and vicious in its mind control than anything could ever be in this country. However, there are more subtle ways to conform a society through psychological means. Psychologists have studied techniques and circumstances that can lead to mind control—to the degree that people who are thus controlled believe they are actually choosing to do what they are directed to do. Dr. Philip Zimbardo was a professor of psychology and director of the Social Psychology’s Graduate Training Program at Stanford University when he wrote a chapter for the book //On Nineteen Eighty-Four//. From his extensive background in studying forms of mind control, he wrote:
 * [|Psychological Mind Control]**

Among the major discoveries of modern social psychology is the simple principle that under specified conditions a bare minimum of social pressure can produce great attitude change. The most profound and enduring changes in attitude are generated when two conditions are present: first, the person perceives that he or she has free choice in deciding to behave in ways that are counter-normative or against one’s values, beliefs, or motives; and second, the force applied to elicit this discrepant action is just barely sufficient in magnitude to accomplish the task (p. 207).

Zimbardo contends that "the real power of effective mind control is to be found in the basic needs of people to be loved, respected, recognized, and wanted" (p. 208). Along with this idea is one of the plans of the Commission—to remove the stigma of "mental illness." The stigma may be shifted to those who refuse screening and treatment for their children or themselves.

Producers Note
Many people are often unaware of their surroundings and are further unaware of the deeper meaning behind them. Our main goal for our Public Service Announcement was to show how the tactic of psychological intimidation is [|all around us]. Psychological intimidation is a method that conveys to the audience subtle intimidation through bias and largely untruthfully information. Authoritative figures are most susceptible to using psychological intimidation as a means to gain influence and ultimately control and power. However psychological intimidation does not only resonate in authoritated places. It is often found in places such as television, the Internet and schools. Our overarching goal for our PSA was to highlight how police in their use of unjust profiling of drivers imposes psychological intimidation. Ultimately, our PSA was designed to convey our thesis of how psychological intimidation, though subtle, is a common occurrence in our daily life. It is found all throughout media and imposes upon the viewer largely bias information that shifts and molds certain opinions. In order to best showcase our thesis in our PSA, we made unique choices when producing our announcement. Our PSA is centralized on a topic that is relevant to people in our generation, driving and police. Most people our age have experienced or witnessed the situation depicted in our PSA and because of this parallel, our message can resonate with much more effectiveness. The choice of creating a relative dynamic was essential to our PSA and getting across our main goals. Another choice we made was to have our PSA contain only text rather than voice audio. We felt that the pictures should do all of our “talking” rather than one of our voices. The foundation of our PSA and the production of it were from helpful sites we have visited. The sites that were visited were focused on psychological intimidation and its relevance to present day. Further we explored very basic sites that define psychological intimidation in a [|universal context]. The sites that we found to be most helpful were the ones that gave us examples of psychological intimidation in a modern setting such as [|bullies] in schools, the [|police], and the [|Iraq War]. These sites proved to be most valuable because they aided us in conveying our thesis in a manner that would relate to people like us.