Right-wing critics attacked Group Experiment’s method as mere stimulated emotional confession

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His criticism was very condescending, and as a witty leitmotif it used the assertion that the group experiment was just a variation on the theme in vino veritas, namely in ira veritas (a play on the alleged overstimulation of the participants by the basic stimulus'). According to Hofstätter, this was just as questionable as using proverbs, which had repeatedly been suggested to him when he was an army psychologist as an alternative to his own method, which had been ridiculed as being out of touch with life’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2039