Promises come at a price

Promises come at a price
http://www.physorg.com/news165587159.html
June 30th, 2009

Be careful what you promise people. You are not just obliging yourself to keep your promises; other people will hold you to account for them as well. Dutch-sponsored researcher Manuela Vieth investigated how the behaviour of other people and your own behaviour influences later behaviour.

If other people say they trust you, you actually become more trustworthy. If you believe you are trustworthy, you oblige yourself to keep your promises. And other people will hold you to account for them; if you do not keep your promise, you can expect revenge.

The punishing of bad behaviour and the rewarding of good behaviour are patterns of behaviour which help to maintain the social order. Yet according to some researchers, the rewarding of good behaviour, positive reciprocity, is non-existent or virtually non-existent. Vieth’s results have now proved them wrong.

Social experiments involving trust

To investigate how people allow themselves to be influenced by their own and other people’s previous behaviour, Vieth had subjects make decisions in different choice situations. The emphasis was on trust situations and similar interactions in which proceeds could be shared. In some choice situations participants could reward trustworthiness and in others they could promise rewards or threaten with penalties.

Depending on their behaviour, participants earned more or less money. People could earn more money by betraying trust than by rewarding trust. Punishing or rewarding also cost money. These choice situations were played out one-on-one with anonymous partners. Interactions were not repeated with the same people, so emotional ties and potential future benefits played no role in the behaviour.

When one player indicated that he trusted the other, the other person actually appeared to become more trustworthy. Conversely, when someone promised to be trustworthy, the other person also trusted him more. But promising to be trustworthy also increases your own trustworthiness. With these results, Vieth shows that feelings of obligation and people’s urge to be consistent in their behaviour can ensure that people keep their word.

Punishment and rewards

Vieth found that the breaking of promises of trustworthiness leads to revenge. Betrayal of trust after a reward for trustworthiness had been promised was also punished severely. Feelings of indignation therefore seem to have a marked influence on later behaviour. The fulfilment of promises was valued less highly, however. Friendly behaviour after the granting of favours led to weaker feelings of obligation than the original favours.

The money, however, had only a limited influence on the decisions to punish or reward. Only one person voluntarily accepted the costs of reducing or increasing the other person’s results in situations which had not been preceded by an unfriendly or friendly decision of the other person. The behaviour therefore appeared to be guided primarily by feelings of indignation or obligation and by the tendency to behave consistlently.

With her study, Manuela Vieth has systematically demonstated for the first time how previous behaviour influences subsequent behaviour. Earlier researchers did not manage to exclude the profit and loss for the subjects. Vieth argues not only that behaviour depends on motives that are based on proceeds, but also that feelings of obligation and indignation as well as the desire for consistency influence our behaviour. Vieth conducted her research with funding from the Free Competition of the NWO’s Division for the Social Sciences (MaGW).

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Was Michael Jackson a Mind-Controlled Sex Slave ?

From Mind-Controlled Sex Slaves and the CIA:

… I have noticed that since I wrote the original “Stepford Whores” article for Hustler in 2001 (included in this book), a number of cases have popped up in the news that seem to bear the earmarks of the same phenomena detailed in this book.

For instance, the latest Michael Jackson child molestation case made me suspicious as detailed rumors that started pouring during the trial. According to the stories, Jackson had for many years been bringing 12-to-14-year-old boys to his circus-like Neverland Ranch in California, showering them with toys and gifts, plying them with alcohol (“Jesus Juice,” or wine in a Coke can), and sexually molesting them. In many cases, the parents of the boys seemed to be complicit in what was going on, as they repeatedly brought their sons to spend the night alone in bed with this strange grown man. Perhaps not coincidentally, Jackson reportedly showered the parents with gifts as well, including large sums of cash.

Friends of Jackson have reported his tendency to slip into child-like characters that seem like alternate personalities, his favorite being Peter Pan, “because he never has to grow up.” He seems to be obsessed with the concept of wearing masks, and transmogrification, as demonstrated in the videos for his songs “Thriller” and “Black or White.” This desire to transform himself has obviously led to Jackson’s disastrous plastic surgery, and presumably ties in with the fact that he forces his children to wear masks while they are in public. Indeed, viewers of Martin Bashir’s famous 2003 documentary exposé of Michael Jackson saw that he appeared to live in a 24-hour fantasy world of his own making in which he pretended to be a child. He shows all the signs of someone suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Jackson also shows the signs of having been sexually abused as a child, and indeed has accused his father Joseph of abusing him, as has his sister LaToya. Michael is known to have had psycho-sexual problems since early on. His highly-publicized marriage to Lisa Marie Presley is believed to have been a publicity stunt, while his marriage to Deborah Rowe was part of a scheme in which his first two children were produced through in vitro fertilization. They divorced in 1999, and Jackson had another child in 2002, but nobody knows who the mother is. The kids have always had their faces covered when shown in public. Some say this is partly because he is hiding the fact that they are obviously not his biological children.

So who are these kids, and what is happening to them in Michael Jackson’s custody? We may never know, as Jackson was acquitted of the molestation charges, and immediately went running to Bahrain, a known child prostitution center where pedophilia is openly tolerated. The question of the children’s safety becomes even more paramount when we consider allegations made by Jack Gordon, the former husband of Michael Jackson’s sister LaToya, who claimed in a tell-all book to have witnessed Jackson sacrificing monkeys in occult rituals, and physically abusing his pet monkeys on several occasions. In a similar vein, Vanity Fair reported in March 2003 that in 2000 Michael Jackson paid a voodoo witchdoctor in Mali $150,000 to put a curse on his 24 most-hated enemies, including Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. The ceremony, which reportedly took place in Switzerland, required Jackson to bathe in the blood of 42 freshly-sacrificed cows.

Was Michael Jackson a Project MONARCH victim as a child? It has been said that the CIA’s MK-ULTRA targeted members of the entertainment industry, and that many famous child actors and singers were in fact mind-controlled slaves. The name of his ranch, Neverland, as well as his obsession with Peter Pan, are suspicious, for as we know, this imagery was allegedly used as a programming base for MONARCH children, according to Cathy O’Brien. And what shape could you once see from the air when you fly over Neverland Ranch, made out of colorful flowers and bushes? The image of a Monarch butterfly.

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