Rainer Mausfeld (born 22 December 1949 in Iserlohn) is a retired German professor of psychology at Kiel University.
Subsequently, he was a consultant at the Institute for Test and Talent Research of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in Bonn until 1981.
Fully understanding color perception also requires studying texture, regularities governing the interaction of light with different types of surfaces, the ways in which perceivers internally represent regions of space, and many other factors.
[6] In his work, Mausfeld illustrates the role of psychologists in the development, application, and justification of modern white torture methods.
His work states that the goals of these methods are not, as claimed, the extraction of information, but rather breaking the will, disciplining, humiliating, and shaming the victims.
This "opinion management," as Mausfeld puts it, which equals propaganda in the sense of Edward Bernays, is the means the formal democratic order adopts to exercise domination without visible force by creating voluntary consent in the minds of citizens.
The techniques aim to make invisible not only facts, but also possibilities of thinking and thus alternative actions (domination of perception).
Mausfeld puts his criticism of manipulation techniques within the framework of a fundamental critique of the capitalist economic and social order.