The Tabula has been able to influence large populations of people by demonizing enemies and encouraging constant fear. This has unquestionably been a Tabula strategy since the early Twentieth Century. Researchers have recently investigated the possibility that crucial psychological experiments in the 1950s and 1960s motivated the recent use of this tactic.

The only obvious connection is Bernard Nevelson’s 1962-3 experiments at the University of Michigan. Nevelson acknowledged Evergreen Foundation sponsorship in the footnotes to his journal publications and in the forward to his book, The Unseen Terror: Fear as Motivation in Cognitive Tasks. In Dr. Nevelson’s most famous experiment, the unseen "snake in the box" was found to have a greater influence on the subject than the visible snake in the cage (by a factor of 3.2).

Note: psychology graduate students at the University of Michigan still mix a potent alcoholic brew for parties which is emptied from a sealed container. The drink has been nicknamed "Snake in the Box. "