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Psychology
2 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Herbalife / Tupperware PyramidA theory claiming that multi-level marketing and party-plan direct sales were not only commercial models but social-conditioning experiments designed to test obedience, belief reinforcement, scripted recruitment, and group identity under pressure. In this view, businesses such as Herbalife and Tupperware are used as case studies in a larger cultic or mind-control architecture disguised as entrepreneurship.
- The Facebook (2012) Emotion ExperimentFacebook altered what 689,003 users saw in their feeds for a week in 2012 to find out whether emotion spreads online. The study was published, its own journal issued an expression of concern about consent within a fortnight, and the measured effect was about one word in a thousand. The conspiracy version treats it as a test of whether depression could be induced at scale; the effect size is the reason that reading does not hold.