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- From: TBOURBON@UTMBEACH.BITNET (Tom Bourbon)
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- Subject: citations;social;Gabriel
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 14:37:00 GMT
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- From Tom Bourbon (921216 09:18 CST)
-
- Re: Citations of PCT; Social literature; John Gabriel
-
- If anyone has citations for applications of PCT, in any setting, I
- want them. Keep my address on file and send or post anything you
- find. I will be grateful.
-
- For one specific application, Clark McPhail, one of his graduate
- students, and I are looking for citations of PCT, and any of the
- half-baked derivatives of PCT, in the literature on the behavior of
- people in crowds, gatherings or small groups. We also need
- citations of work in which authors claim that in crowds people lose
- their minds, come under control of a group mind, lose "the ability
- to self-monitor," become "deindividuated," and so on. You probably
- get the picture. Please send anything you can.
-
- Even more specifically on the topic of citations, this is to follow
- up on a post that might have been overlooked:
-
- >Tom Bourbon (921215 00:48)
-
- >>[gabriel to powers 921214 11:35 CST]
-
- >>Subject: PCT and war
-
- >Actually, this is a request for information. The following remark
- >occurred during your musings in "PCT and war:"
-
- >>How do you learn to spot those small mistakes soon enough without
- >>millennia of Darwin backing you up? Increasingly critical problem
- >>when communication works faster, and those who have been applying
- >>PCT in advertising agencies have a substantial hand in deciding
- >>who gets to be president and C in C. Perhaps it was better when
- >>it took three months to go from Oregon to Washington to kick butt
- >>of elected rep.
-
- >"... those who have been applying PCT in advertising agencies have
- >a substantial hand in deciding who gets to be president and C in
- >C."
-
- >I collect citations of PCT and I am always looking for new areas
- >in which PCT is applied. I have not seen, perhaps because I never
- >looked for them, applications of PCT in advertising. I would like
- >to add that specimen to my collection. Can you provide a few
- >specific citations and examples?
-
-
- I am serious. I will appreciate any citations you can provide on
- people in advertising agencies who use PCT to sell products and to
- influence presidential elections in the United States. My
- collection of applications will be incomplete without citations for
- applications as important as those. Don't keep them for yourself!
-
- Until later,
-
- Tom Bourbon e-mail:
- Magnetoencephalography Laboratory TBOURBON@UTMBEACH.BITNET
- Division of Neurosurgery, E-17 TBOURBON@BEACH.UTMB.EDU
- University of Texas Medical Branch PHONE (409) 763-6325
- Galveston, TX 77550 FAX (409) 762-9961 USA
-