Is someone gaslighting you? Here’s a basic definition:
Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think.
How can you combat gaslighting as a journalist? Mary Louise Kelly did a great job in her interview of Mike Pompeo recently. Here’s a bit of that interview.
In the 1950’s, social psychologist Soloman Asch did some experiments that showed how powerful it is to be gaslit (or at least something that seems similar to gaslighting) even when it involved strangers with no emotional connection in a laboratory setting.
