Who is studying humans who cant be fooled?

Scientists exploring the mind and how it works or trying to work out how language is processed and how language can be used to influence others and one self, even NLP practioners are all working with the same stuff that buddhists are working with.

They are working in the same field: The field of the human mind, what it is and how it works.

But there's a few very notable differences.

Scientists is always looking for a model of how the mind works and how it interrelates with language. Buddhists are always looking for a way out of the mind and the language it interrelates with.

It's a crucial difference, but it is NOT a difference of subject. It's a difference of goal and a difference of method.

Could we merge these two? They are already merging. Zen koan's is much like scientific research into logic. Paradoxes are studied by logicians who wants to find a system that will explain paradoxes. Buddhist studies paradoxes to realize that what ever they think, it will contain a paradox.

Buddhist's are looking for a way out. Scientists are looking for a way to stay in the bubble.

What no one apparantly is researching is what it's like to be in there, in the mind. There a many, many statements about this, but they are all lacking. Stream-of-consciousness is an often used term. But it only means that we all experience consciousness as a flow of experiences.

But, the big question is not how it works, but what you can do about it. Can you change your perception of what it is to be you? Yes you can. But nowhere can you find a description of how this is done, except what others can do to change your perception.

Hidden camera's television is oten extremely funny, but what we don't see are the many participants who weren't fooled and who didn't make an ass of them self.

Psychologists search for the faults in man, they explore the misfits, the psychotic and the strangeness or even normality.

Why isn't anyone studying these unique individuals who can't be fooled and who don't react to psychological experiments.

What is it with these people? No one seems to be interested.

How come?

When you're the obstacle

It happens all the time: A new psychological study tells us that people can me manipulated by the strangest things. The last such study I read about found that a picture of a library on the wall made people speak softer, that people behave more competitively when they see a sharp leather briefcase and that they keep their desk tidier when there's a scent cleaning agent in the air. Read about the study on Time magazine.

There's one major problems with all these studies: They're missing the point. Or rather, they are missing at least one crucial point.

How come some people do NOT react on these manipulative hidden clues? Shouldn't that be the real point? It's very, very easy to manipulate people. But how come some of us don't bite? What is it that make some people able to NOT fall for these things?

I may fall for a lot of these hidden clues, but I know for a fact that there are plenty of clues that other people react to that I don't react to. So what gives? Am I just wired differently? Or am I thinking in a way that stops me from changing my behaviour, just because of a sharp leather suitcase?

And I'll bet that there are people out there that don't react to clues that I fall for. So, shouldn't someone somewhere try to find out if there's a common MO that will make us more immune to manipulation?

That would be something, wouldn't it? A way to immunize you and me from manipulation, a way that will make us more independent.

Why is no one looking at the other aspect of manipulation, deception and illusions? Where are the studies that help us withstand more.

Anyone?