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.
Here is a handy checklist. [1]
How can you combat gaslighting as a journalist? Mary Louise Kelly did a great job [2] in her interview of Mike Pompeo recently. Here’s a bit of that interview [3].
In the 1950’s, social psychologist Soloman Asch did some experiments that showed how powerful it is to be gaslit [4] (or at least something that seems similar to gaslighting) even when it involved strangers with no emotional connection in a laboratory setting.
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