@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1088, TITLE={Cognitive warfare and psychological influence}, AUTHOR={Bernard Claverie , Jean-François Trinquecoste, }, JOURNAL={Cognitive Engineering}, VOLUME={7}, NUMBER={Issue 1}, YEAR={2024}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Cognitive-warfare-and-psychological-influence}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1088}, ISSN={2517-6978}, ABSTRACT={Directed cognitive influence consists, particularly in the field of cognitive warfare, of altering, modifying, or preventing the autonomous development of a human target’s thoughts. These interventions can have lasting, even permanent, consequences on the targeted people. Several methods are used, some of which relate to psychology or medicine, which obviously raises the problem of the ethics of such practices in an illegal exercise of protected professions.}}