{"id":4523,"date":"2026-09-28T19:20:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/?page_id=4523"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:23:04","slug":"the-mind-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/the-mind-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mind Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/credenceonline.co.uk\/shop\/product\/the-mind-game-2026\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4524\" src=\"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-721.jpg 721w, https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-721-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-721-24x17.jpg 24w, https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-721-36x26.jpg 36w, https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-721-48x35.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who shapes what you believe? And how much of what you think is truly your own?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mind Game<\/em> is Phillip Day\u2019s investigation into perhaps the most valuable territory on Earth: <strong>the human mind<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We like to imagine that our opinions, fears, ambitions and beliefs are independently formed. But throughout history, governments, institutions, advertisers, political movements, entertainment industries and supposed experts have understood a fundamental truth: <strong>change the way people think and you can change the way they behave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Mind Game<\/em>, Phillip ventures into the machinery of influence. He examines propaganda and the manufacture of public opinion; the psychology surrounding war and social upheaval; the enormous cultural power of Hollywood and the music industry; and the techniques by which ideas can move from the fringes of society to become accepted orthodoxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who shapes what you believe? And how much of what you think is truly your <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/the-mind-game\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4528,"href":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4523\/revisions\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/credence.org\/new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}