Tool 5: Trigger, Experience, Reaction
The fifth and final Detection tool. Derived from the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman’s “Timeline of Emotions” model, it gives us the cognitive framework for understanding how Disinfolklore moves through our minds: something triggers our emotions, we experience a feeling, and we react. The gap between experience and reaction is where our freedom lives — and where Disinfolklorists operate.
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Where Next?
- Tool 6: Code of Positive Trolls — the Bridge from Detection to Adjudication
- Moods, Intentions, Motivations, Attitudes — the four elements TER targets
- Coercive Control — how TER is weaponised systematically
- Tool 2: Troll Radars — the radars that TER sharpens
- Tool 3: Mana in the Meme — the energy that TER detects in motion