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Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2005

 

Terrorists Are Made, Not Born: Creating Terrorists Using Social Psychological Conditioning


Anthony Stahelski, Ph.D.


Abstract

Sociologists and social psychologists have discovered that terrorist groups use cult-like conditioning techniques to convert normal individuals into remorseless killers. The limited global counterterrorism resources should focus on eradicating the terrorist group training camps where the conditioning takes place, rather than on trying to find terrorists after they have already been conditioned.
 

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