influence

Information on cults, cultic groups, psychological manipulation, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse, brainwashing, mind control, thought reform, abusive churches, extremism, totalistic groups, new religious movements, alternative and mainstream religions, group dynamics, exit counseling, recovery, and practical suggestions for those affected by or interested in these subjects.

Information on cults, cultic groups, psychological manipulation, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse, brainwashing, mind control, thought reform, abusive churches, extremism, totalistic groups, new religious movements, alternative and mainstream religions, group dynamics, exit counseling, recovery, and practical suggestions for those affected by or interested in these subjects

Info for:

Influence

Allen Tate Wood - link
Andersen, Susan M., Ph.D. & Zimbardo, Philip G., Ph.D.: "On Resisting Social Influence" - abstract
Baron, Robert: "Arousal, Capacity, and Intense Indoctrination" - abstract
Cialdini, Robert B. Ph.D.: "Influence"
Eichel, Steve K. D,. Ph.D.: "Can Scholars Be Deceived? Empirical Evidence from Social Psychology and History"
Extreme Manipulation
Fellows, Robert: "Creating the Illusion of Mind Reading in a Self-Transformation Training" - abstract
Goldberg, William, MSW: "Cold Reading: The Tricks of the Psychics
Kent, Stephen & Hall, Deana: "Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family" - abstract
Krok, Dariusz, Ph.D.: "The Influence of Persuasive Strategies Used by Cultic Groups in the Context of Forewarning"
Lalich, Janja, Ph.D.: "Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool: A Case Study of Heaven's Gate" - abstract
Langone, Micahel, Ph.D.: "Deception, Dependency & Dread The Conversion Process"
Langone, Michael D., Ph.D.: "Social Influence: Ethical Considerations" - abstract
Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Inner Experience and Conversion" - abstract
Lifton, Robert J., M.D.: "Lifton's Eight Criteria for Thought Reform"
Lifton, Robert, J. M.D.: "Cult Formation"
MacDonald, Jerry: "'Reject the Wicked Man': Coercive Persuasion and Deviance Production - abstract
Miller, Jesse, Ph.D.: "The Utilization of Hypnotic Techniques in Religious Cult Conversion" - abstract
Singer, Margaret, Ph.D.: "Six Conditions for Thought Reform"
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - book review by Monica Pignotti, Ph.D.
The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D.
Tourish, Dennis, & Vatcha, Naheed: "Charismatic Leadership and Corporate Cultism at Enron: The Elimination of Dissent, the Promotion of Conformity, and Organizational Collapse" - abstract
Weapons of Fraud: A Source Book for Fraud Fighters - book reviewed by Colleen Russell, LMFT
Wexler, Mark, Ph.D.: "Expanding the Groupthink Explanation to the Study of Contemmporary Cults" - abstract
What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics - book review by Joseph Szimhart
Zimbardo, Philip, Ph.D.: "Mind Control: Psychological Reality or Mindless Rhetoric?"
Zimbardo, Philip, Ph.D.: "What messages are behind today's cults?"

E-Library Not a member? Join now!

9 ex-Alamo group members to testify

A time to go with our heads as well as our hearts

Alamo defender asking to withdraw

Amid a holy war

An expert asks: Do we all have an evil, dark side?

ANALYSIS-Saudi speeds up education reform, clerics resist

Archbishop assails Irish orders over child abuse

At 75, Charles Manson still has power to influence others

Austrian Murder Sparks Protests in India

Bad Apples and Bad Barrels

Behind the closed doors on C Street

Blaming gay men for abuse gets us nowhere

Bloomberg's Loyal Cult: The Independence Party

Book Review: Underground as an example of narrative sensemaking

Book Review: Weapons of Fraud: A Source Book for Fraud Fighters

Brazil Supreme Court: Extradite head of child abusing sect

Cai cult linked by the internet

Can Scholars Be Deceived? Empirical Evidence from Social Psychology and History

Charitable Front

Charm, graciousness -- and attitude

Chased by their church: When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you back

China's Falun Gong crackdown: 'The persecution is almost underground'

Christian Scientists seek reimbursement for prayers

Church disunity, recession worry Moon followers and operations

Commentary: No ‘Big Love’ for polygamy laws

Crisis of Faith

Cult healer ‘raped pretty followers’

Cult leader on sex crime charges

Cult Watching in the Reflecting Pool

D.C.’s ‘invisible army’ for Christ

Death sparks calls for self-help regulation

Did Christianity Cause the Crash?

Different health care reform: doctors trained to deal with patients about faith

Does Islam insist on polygamy? A response

Elior Chen interrogated in J'lem

Elizabeth Clare Prophet dies at 70; former leader of religious sect

Expert paid $500,000 for report on Elizabeth Smart kidnapper

Ex-TV evangelist Schuller buys cable network AmericanLife

Faith healing or inhuman sacrifice?

FLDS leader Jeffs starving himself, jail authorities say

FLDS: Did secret deal leave former polygamous sect members out?

For secular and Catholic France, a shock to the system: the rise of the evangelicals

Former Oregon juvenile officer faces ethics fine

Frank Blasts Nazi Comparisons From LaRouche Backers

God and the Recession

GP's £2m 'guru' claim thrown out

Gwyneth Paltrow and Celebrity Pseudo-Science

Harness the power of persuasion

How Scientology got to Bob Minton

How wicked cool stuff works: Hypnosis

I am Annoyed and Disappointed

Indian police turn to terrorist rehabilitation

Intimidating and violent: defector

Is congressional boardinghouse a cult?

Is Scientology a Cult? Is Paul Haggis the Next Martin Luther?

Its 'Mother' dead, doomsday sect's future in doubt

LaRouchites on Parade

Last child in TX raid freed from foster care

Law enforcement recordings in Jeffs case to be kept secret

Legislative: Informed Consent Rule for Conversions Suggested

Lord Krishna is still all-time favourite on TV, movies

Malawi: Madonna, Mercy And Neocolonialism

Masons build on long history of service, fraternity

Mayor’s Campaign to Woo Independence Party Is Close to Paying Off

Medjugorje - a shrine to the Virgin Mary or a sham?

Metroland sued for $65 million

Michigan Raid Reveals a Mysterious Islamic Sect

Milgram and the CIA: Tortured allegations?

Mormon myths: From hero fantasies to cautionary tales

Nigerian Forces Raid Militant Compound

No sects please, we’re French

On Resisting Social Influence

Only Itself to Blame

Order in Tubac prepares for apocalypse

Police report gives first details of Arizona sweat lodge deaths

Polygamous fundamentalists baptized by proxy into LDS Church, researcher says

Portland pastor faces three years in tax case

Positive Steps to Becoming Less Vulnerable to Influence and Authority

Prayer mom falls ill at trial

Psychology of evil professor delivers final Stanford lecture

Publish and Perish

Questions About ‘Sweat Lodge’ Rite Where 2 Died

Report: Another Death as Result of James Ray Healing Exercise

Saudis Go From Jihad to Rehab

Self-Help Doesn't Help—And Often Hurts

Shifting Boundaries:The Establishment Clause and Government Funding of Religious Schools and Other Faith-Based Organizations

SIFF: Children of the Revolution: Two New Docs Wrestle With the Old Hippie Idealism

Some Sacramento-area faithful turn backs on pastors, 'spiritual abuse'

Space aliens, Satanists, and those who try to control minds

Strength in their numbers

Students face religious dilemmas

Sweat lodge deaths cast negative spotlight on guru

Sweatbox victims were attending 'Spiritual Warrior' program

The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion

The 'it' factor

The knock at the door that turned my parents into brainwashed fanatics - and nearly cost my life

The Perils of "Past Life Regression"

The shocking truth about ethics

The Terrorist Mind: An Update

The Virgin Mary is very angry...

Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church

Trial of accused cult members delayed again

Turkish Blasphemy Trial Begins Against French-Turkish Author

Twelve Tribes wants to buy buildings, create square

Unproven Remedies: Billions spent, no cures found

Unproven, perilous alternative cures are embraced

Up from Secularism

Vatican investigates Legionaries of Christ

Was Nancy Garrido a victim or accomplice?

Will followers still obey evangelist from prison?

Wis. dad of dead girl says he trusted God to heal

With affiliation, Catholic college to yield some power

Woman 'married' to pastor at age 8 to retake stand

Yearning for Truth: Oprah's Visit to the FLDS Compound

Youth for Western Civilization group at Vanderbilt stirs furor

Topic list