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 | | Coercive persuasion is not a religious practice it is a contol technology. | | | Any organization using coercive persuasion as a central practice that also claims to be a religion is a contradiction of terms. | | | Coercive persuasion is also antiethical to sincerity and good faith. |
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http://www.piratehaven.org/~atman/factnet/cp&scn.txt
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| | CESNUR - APA Brief in the Molko Case |
| | The coercive persuasion explanation for affiliation and continued membership in the Unification Church wholly ignores the fact that almost all Church members eventually disassociate from the Church of their own volition. | | | Denuded of its scientific legitimacy, the coercive persuasion theory, as applied in the Unification Church context, amounts to little more than a refusal to accept that persons could choose to adopt the belief system and way of life of that Church. | | | Plaintiffs have not claimed that they were forcibly detained against their will, that they were deceived about the nature of the Unification Church when they chose to affiliate with it, or that Church members intended to inflict emotional harm on them during recruitment[2]. |
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| | YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> brainwashing |
| | The elements of thought reform as published in that book are sometimes used as a basis for cult checklists and are as follows. | | | Zablocki, Benjamin: The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion. | | | Social scientists who study new religious movements, such as Jeffrey K. Hadden (see References), understand the general proposition that religious groups can have considerable influence over their members, and that that influence may have come about through deception and indoctrination. |
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http://www.yourart.com/research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/brainwashing
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| | FaithWriters.com e-Books Coercive Persuasion & the Church |
| | The New Testament is not silent about the spread of false doctrine among the people of God and neither should we (1 Timothy 1:18-20, 6:3-5; 2 Timothy 3; 2 Peter 2; 3 John 9-11). | | | It is my hope that this study will inspire you to follow Paul's admonishment that we consistently examine ourselves to ensure that we have not unknowingly compromised our faith (2 Corinthians 13:5) for personal gain and glory. | | | Destructive cults are those that erode a person's self esteem and render him helpless in exercising free will. |
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http://www.faithwriters.com/e-book-details.php?id=499
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| | You'll never think the same way again. . . The Revelation |
| | John Dewey believed that, "the human power to respond to reason and truth protects democracy." Any organization using coercive persuasion on its members that also claims to be a religion is turning the sacred trust and privileges of our democratic First Amendment sanctuary into a fortress for psychological assault. | | | Not all individuals exposed to coercive persuasion or thought reform programs are effectively coerced into becoming participants. | | | Examining processes, never beliefs, will not violate anyone's First Amendment religious protections. |
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http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/mindcontrol
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| | Jehovah's Witnesses United |
| | As an alternative argument, the government contends that specific intent is not at issue in this case because the defendant joined the Church of Scientology after he commenced his scheme to defraud, and consequently [*722] must have had a pre-existing intent that was independent of the Church's coercive persuasion. | | | Exactly when the defendant joined the Church of Scientology is disputed by the parties. | | | But when a mugger holds a knife at a victim's throat and asks for money, most people give it. |
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http://jehovah.to/gen/freedom/fishman.htm
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| | Brainwashed or Converted? |
| | They further contend that they justifiably relied on those representations in unwittingly agreeing to participate in church activities by means of which they were brainwashed into becoming members of the church, and that they suffered psychological and financial damage. | | | In support of their theory, Molko and Leal introduced as witnesses Singer and Benson, who contended that Molko and Leal had been subjected to a sophisticated program of coercive persuasion which had rendered them incapable of freely joining the church. | | | Singer has offered the theory of "systematic manipulation of social influences" or "thought reform" in numerous other cases brought against the Unification Church as well as the Church of Scientology, Transcendental Meditation, the Local Church, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, various awareness training groups, and even the Snap-On Tool Corporation. |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=862
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| | Religious Cults |
| | Why we should declare those who go out and attempt to influence others as "brainwashers" and claim that good people simply wait on people to come to their churches is confusing to me. It is likely a case of the IS becoming the OUGHT iin our minds. | | | We should never forget that to be religious always involves faith - beliefs that are based on non-empirical convictions that go beyond the five senses. | | | One size does not fit all and our response to situations where people join new, different, and sometimes dangerous new religious groups called "cults" should be to realize not everybody finds helpful our brand of religion. |
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http://www.gbgm-umc.org/smumc-ca/Forum/NMCults.htm
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| | IN THE Supreme Court of the United States OCTOBER TERM |
| | In that, the effect would be to favor and advanlage a ne~ aggressively "proselytizing" organization using coercive persuasion techniques over the older more traditional religions who would not use them. | | | Recently, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the Tax Court's finding that the "church" of Scientology is not worthy to qualify for the federal tax exemption granted to truly charitable and religious organizations. | | | Next, beginning almost immediately after Dianetics and Scientology appeared in the carly 50's there has been a growing Hnd intensifying national and international record of contention with Scientology's assertion it is a bonafide religion. |
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| | Bardin, David J., Esq.: "Psychological Coercion & Human Rights: Mind Control ('Brainwashing') Exists" |
| | In a terrorist hostage-taking situation, authorities confront a small group of fanatics who are usually surprisingly rational, given their assumptions, and a group of hostages who definitely don't want to be there. | | | Ammerman's report contains a number of inaccuracies regarding thought reform (also known as "coercive persuasion" and colloquially as "brainwashing" or "mind control"), which Dr. Margaret Singer has addressed in her letter to you. | | | Cults: A conflict between religious liberty and involuntary servitude? |
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http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/bardin_david_psy_coercion_human_rights.htm
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| | What is Mind Control? |
| | Coercive persuasion uses various methods to ‘teach’ people new attitudes and beliefs. | | | Coercive persuasion and subliminal messaging are used for mind control. | | | In order to determine if coercive persuasion is being used it is necessary to see if the person held enough knowledge to make the decision to change their beliefs and attitudes on there own and therefore if the individual adopted the beliefs and attitudes on their own. |
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http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session4/46/mind.htm
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| | Fingarette, "Coercion, Coercive Persuasion, and the Law" |
| | I must begin with a few words about the perspective from which the following analyses are relevant to the topic of coercive persuasion in the context of the new religions. | | | Methods of persuasion that might be plainly wrong in law when used in, for example, an economic or domestic context, may very well be protected by the claim that they are intrinsic to religious worship. | | | And that also seems to be the sort of thing that is at issue when there are allegations of coercive persuasion, or brainwashing, or thought reform. |
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| | CAN's definition of a cult applied to itself |
| | The _leader_ has some divine power or special knowledge known ony to them. | | | Does this necessarily mean that "mind control" is used on the actual members of CAN? | | | But "mind control" and "coercive persuasion" are undefined and fear-inducing concepts that can be applied to almost anything with which one disagree with, which is what CAN is doing (or whatever their new name is. I gather it is now "The Education Committee of the Free Thought Alliance"). |
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| | Persuasion technology - Meta |
| | The technology involved would be incomprehensible and opaque, equivalent to magic or angels or demons to the average person. | | | What distinguishes a persuasion or coercive presentation technology is the impossibility of the individual being persuaded from responding with or creating an equally-effective response in real time. | | | Accordingly, these technologies are not particularly 'egalitarian' when compared to traditional w:meeting systems - except insofar as they permit participation by people who are widely geographically distributed and not required to come to a single physical place to discuss things - itself possibly a more potent barrier to participation than communications technology. |
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Persuasion_technology
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| | Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change |
| | Schein noted that even for prisoners, what happened was a subjection to "unusually intense and prolonged persuasion" that they could not avoid; thus, "they were coerced into allowing themselves to be persuaded" (Schein 1961, p. | | | Attribution theories would predict that if there were differences between the power of reform programs to promote belief change in settings that were relatively more or less blatantly coercive and physically threatening, the effect would be greatest in less-coercive programs. | | | Phases differ in their principal goals and their admixtures of persuasive, influencing, and coercive tactics. |
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| | Feb 22, 2002 Author Interview |
| | R: OK, What arguments do you pose of the question does coercive persuasion exist? | | | Persuasion and persuasion studies take into account both the methods of persuasion used by the first party, as well as the second party's tendency for and against being persuaded. | | | There are many people out there who think the media uses coercive persuasion... |
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| | Breaking the Vow of Secrecy |
| | We were not told beforehand that we would be required to adopt a new belief system, one that went against many of our religious and moral principles. | | | We were not told in advance many of the things we were to be asked to participate in, in the seminar; if we had been properly informed, we would not have gone in the first place. | | | We fail to see how anyone with common decency and respect for others, could go along with the humiliation, deception, baiting, witholding of information, harrassment, and general maltreatment, which we witnessed in this seminar, by those in positions of trust, on those who were trusting in them. |
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| | Review of "Misunderstanding Cults" (Introvigne) |
| | Readers of both Janja Lalich’s and Susan Palmer’s chapters would probably be persuaded that the latter does normally practice what the former recommends. | | | Firstly, in her 1994 summons, she tried (unsuccessfully) to recover damages from the APA for what Singer defined APA& malicious "rejection of the scientific validity of the theory of coercive persuasion" (Summons of January 31, 1994, n. | | | More generally, Schein was sceptical from the very beginning (and Lifton started harbouring doubts at least in his Aum Shinri-kyo book and in later papers) about the possibility of identifying unacceptable coercive persuasion or thought reform on the basis of process only, without also looking at what ideology is actually promulgated through each persuasion process. |
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| | Joining a Cult: Religious Choice or Psychological Aberration? |
| | So strong is the tradition of freedom of religion in this country that few suggest that adults can be removed from religious groups simply because the latter are destructive to the members' physical health, offensive to the majority, and so on. | | | Although there are other reasons for the wholesale adoption of the "brainwashing" theory, certainly the strongest is that it justifies a hair-raising variety of coercive interventions by claiming that the subject is so non-autonomous as to be almost literally "not there." This maneuver has a number of results, not all of them consciously intended. | | | 26 Richard Delgado argues that it is possible to regulate cults without contravening the Establishment Clause in "When Religious Exercise Is Not Free: Deprogramming and the Constitutional Status of Coercively Induced Belief," 37 VAND. |
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| | Art19 |
| | Not to learn means loss of job or career advancement. | | | redefinition comes about, and, to this end, we must understand coercive persuasion. | | | One of the most difficult aspects of this reality is that we cannot ignore that the same methods of |
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| | Brainwashing by Religious Cults |
| | NRMs seem to have a generally positive impact on most of their followers. | | | ACM beliefs are also reinforced some feminists, conservative Christians and others who still believe in the widespread existence of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA). | | | Over the last ten years, cults have used tactics of coercive mind control to negatively impact an estimated 20 million victims in the last ten years. |
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| | Jehovahs Witness Discussion Forum - Topic: Does Mind Control Exist? (page 1) |
| | Propaganda - Body of knowledge centers on political persuasion of masses of people. | | | Thought reform (notes 1,2,3 below) and its synonyms brainwashing and coercive persuasion (4.5) were also noted in DSM-III (1980) and is DSM-III revised (1987), as well as in widely recognized medical texts | | | These have generously been donated to the FACTNet website by Margaret Singer specifically for the purpose of empowering our subscribers regarding their search for clarity regarding these issues. |
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| | The Religious Movements Page: Maryland Cult Taskforce |
| | We shall hear more of this charge from Gordon Melton, shortly. | | | Like its terminological relations, "brainwashing" and "mind control", etc., coercive persuasion is a term of doubtful empirical, objective standing. | | | Rather, people join and leave with great ease; the few excepts to the generalizations are ALREADY legally actionable as cases of false impriosonment, extortion, or intimidation. |
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| | GRIS vs CESNUR The Neverending Story |
| | But if the Task Force, according to the Memorandum attached to the letter of July 12 | | | She answered this and other letters by saying that the whole issue of ‘coercive persuasion’ was still awaiting discussion by the members of the Association, in order to achieve a more profound understanding of the use and abuse of social influence. | | | Zablocki (*) has this to say about the position of APA and ASA on the issue of brainwashing theories: "Many people have been misled about the true position of the APA and the ASA with regard to brainwashing. |
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| | WHAT IS A DESTRUCTIVE CULT/GROUP |
| | Spiritual hunger = need for clear answers to existential questions, especially during a difficult life situation/transition | | | COERCIVE PERSUASION is an organized attempt to radically change a person’s IDENTITY (sense of self, self-esteem, meaning, purpose, etc.) for the purpose of radically changing a person’s RELATIONSHIPS (to family, God, the world, other human beings, etc.) | | | Observation: can we see Kimball’s 5 symptoms of “evil” as coercive persuasion in David’s “recruitment” into the cult? |
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| | Persuasion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The word "persuasion" is usually used in distinction to coercion, which involves the use of violence or other kinds of force, or the threat of such force in order to get someone to act against his will. | | | Social psychologist Robert Cialdini has written several books exploring the techniques of non-coercive persuasion. | | | It is the process of guiding people toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action by rational and symbolic (though not only logical) means. |
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| | COERCIVE PERSUASION |
| | Coercive Persuasion operates by undermining the individual’s defense mechanisms, their perceptions, their values and their attitudes. | | | Conversely, Coercive Persuasion is often pandered as simple persuasion; attempting to disguise itself. | | | Most people assume that their own minds and thought processes are somewhere between sacred and invulnerable. |
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| | Margaret Singer: Coercive Persuasion and the Problems of "Ex-Cult Members" |
| | She is generally concerned with the problems which are caused by "coercive persuasion" and has collected experiences of American soldiers who returned home after being held as POWs in North Korea, and recently, of the survivors of the Peoples Temple sect in Guyana in November 1978. | | | American Experiences, 1981 Page 27 Margaret SINGER: Coercive Persuasion and the Problems of "Ex-Cult Members" I have interviewed nearly *300 ex-cult members, primarily from the Unification Church. | | | In the same way, people with whom I have spoken about "coercive persuasion" or "brainwashing" think that only simple-minded people could give in to it, but never them. |
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| | Momentus Explained |
| | Terms like "thought reform" and "coercive persuasion" are used by these scholars. | | | I personally have a problem with this doctrine itself, not just the coercive techniques that are used to teach it.) | | | The idea that a belief system can be irreversibly and completely altered is simply not true. |
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| | Mind control - Wikiquote |
| | Mode of religious proselytizing or persuasion for a continued adherence that do not employ physical coercion or threat of same are protected by the free exercise of religion clause of the First Amendment against action of state laws or by state officials. | | | A non-violent method that uses mind control techniques to convince a person to abandon some of their basic beliefs and adopt the beliefs of the indoctrinator." (Robinson, 1996) | | | The claim of free exercise may not be overcome by the contention that 'brainwashing' or 'mind control' has been used, in the absence of evidence that the above standards have been violated." |
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| | As George explains it, "The general idea of coercive diplomacy is to back one's demand on an adversary with a threat of punishment for noncompliance that he will consider credible and potent enough to persuade him to comply with the demand."[p. | | | This book summary written by: Tanya Glaser, Conflict Research Consortium. | | | In Part Three, George describes contexts in which coercive diplomacy may be an appropriate response, and the factors which make coercive diplomacy likely to be a successful response. |
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| | Idenitity, Attributions, and Attitudes |
| | Coercive Persuasion describes methods that are not as mysterious and unusual as the term "brainwashing" suggests. | | | The research on coercive persuasion indicates that you don't have to be evil, stupid, or crazy to do evil, stupid, and crazy things. | | | What is the "Big Lie" ---and why does it work so well? |
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| | mindcontrol6 |
| | Who were the expert witnesses called to explain to the jury that Patty Hearst was actually a victim of coercive persuasion, mind control and brainwashing... | | | According to that book, Colston Westbrook was a CIA Psy-War expert in Vietnam who came back to the USA to Vacaville Prison under cover of the Black Cultural Association and used behavioural modification techniques on Donald Defreeze and gave him his code name Cinque, and devised the seven headed logo of the Symbionese Liberation Army. | | | Leo Ryan, and we're going to hear a bunch about Jonestown in a minute, is the Congressman who was killed at the airport in Jonestown at the same time as the mass suicide there, which was not actually a suicide. |
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| | Soc 257 Lectures: Brainwashing |
| | The title of his book is: Coercive Persuasion: A Social-Psychological Analsis of the "Brainwashing" of American Civilian Prisoners of the Chinese Communists (1961) | | | There is a fundamental lack of correspondence between the learning theory conceptualization and the definition. | | | "....groups with religious, political, psychologic, and other ideologies at their core...that use the techniques of thought reform (intense indoctrination or resocialization, coercive persuasion, brainwashing....i.e., the systematic manipulation of social and psychological and psychological influence, distinguished from other forms of social learning...." |
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| | www.maxxsystems.com coercive persuasion |
| | Advanced students of persuasion have learned that a sale (an end result) is not made or lost by only one gesture, but rather occurs or doesn't occur after what is known as a cascade of events. | | | The power of the cascade is hidden in the fact that all events contained in it need not be perfect or perfectly performed in order to work. | | | The loss of life among the passengers aboard the Titanic wasn't caused by the ship just hitting the iceberg; Rather the tragedy was the end result of a series of events known as a cascade. |
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| | Peddling - The Real Cult - Freedom Magazine Published by Church of Scientology |
| | --> While Singer’s “coercive persuasion” theory has been debunked, for some years beforehand she was able to peddle it from court to court. | | | It has been estimated that in their heyday, she and colleague Richard Ofshe earned hundreds of thousands of dollars as “expert” witnesses. | | | I am sorry to take you away from your work, but that’s the way it is.” |
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| | iskcon.com - ISKCON Communications Journal - ICJ |
| | In this sense it is not strictly incorrect to say that ISKCON 'practices thought reform' or 'employs coercive persuasion' (in terms of Lifton's and Schein's model) although such a statement oversimplifies a complex situation. | | | Ebaugh (1977) identifies some close parallels between social control processes in a respectable cloistered religious order and Lifton's model of though reform. | | | To conclude this section: while relatively broad models of thought reform and coercive persuasion would clearly fit the Hare Krishna movement, this is simply not tantamount to saying that devotees are 'brainwashed' in the sense that they lose free will and that their ideological and organisational involvement is largely passive, unmotivated, and involuntary. |
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| | Study: Research, "Group Psychological Abuse Scale" 05/05 |
| | These disagreements led to a resolution passed by Division 36 (Psychologists Interested in Religious Issues—now called Psychology of Religion) of the American Psychological Association, which says in part: | | | The following conditions are present in groups practicing thought reform: | | | The center circle represents group environments characterized by thought reform, or coercive persuasion. |
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| | Limbicnutrition |
| | Persuasion Analysis - Hugh Rank's fascinating and superb persuasion site. | | | Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion by Anthony R. Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson [Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com] [Excellent] | | | CWS is the Cochran-Weiss-Shanteau index of performance a new approach to the evaluation of expert performance where there is no independent criterion. |
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| | phoenixnewtimes.com News & Features Feature Drive-thru Deliverance (Page 7) 2000-10-19 |
| | But Ross questions whether coercive persuasion is what allows a group like Landmark to produce attitude and behavioral changes in people and convince them that their long-term participation in the group is essential to preserving that change. | | | He distinguishes four characteristics of coercive persuasion: the reliance on intense interpersonal and psychological attack, the use of an organized peer group, applying interpersonal pressure to promote conformity and the manipulation of the person's social environment. | | | In his report on the Landmark Forum, Raymond Fowler of the American Psychological Association states, "The relatively brief encounters in a pleasant environment that characterizes the Landmark Forum program could never effect such extreme and unwanted changes in personality and behavior as those attributed to the various forms of 'mind control.'" |
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| | U.S. Poised To Use Coercive Military Strategy Against Iraq |
| | This form of coercive diplomacy, Cimbala says, is called "compellence" and differs from a related form of military persuasion widely known as "deterrence." A compellent military strategy uses selective doses of punishment to persuade a state or leader to stop doing something already under way: in this case, Saddam's "cheat and retreat" approach to inspections. | | | Although destruction of Iraqi military and other facilities may be a welcome by-product of U.S. attacks, Cimbala says that the main object of U.S. bombs and missiles will be the mind of the Iraqi leader. | | | "Coercive strategy combines threats of further destruction with promises that destruction can be prevented only by Saddam Hussein's cooperation." |
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| | Coercive Persuasion: The Myth of Free Will |
| | The person who typically feels that everything that happens to him is due to luck or fate, does less well in a stress situation, particularly a sustained stress situation, than the one who has built-in self-determination. | | | Clearly, an individual can control some of his reactions and actions. | | | If and when these men finally come home, if they ever do, are we going to court-martial them for aiding the enemy? |
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| | Persuasion links |
| | Detail of Hugh Rank's 'intensify/downplay' persuasion model, which is particularly focused on helping teachers explain persuasion methods to children (so they can handle such as advertising, not so they can persuade better!). | | | Fair set of pages on 'Real secrets of coercive persuasion.' Sales and NLP based. | | | Kevin Hogan's 'Laws of Persuasion' (reciprocity, contrast, friends, expectancy, association, consistency, scarcity). |
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| | Margaret Singer - Page 1 |
| | Margaret Singer was a psychologist whose theories of so-called "cultic coercive persuasion" have been discredited by her own profession. | | | Several courts have forbidden Singer to testify as an expert on these theories because, as one court stated, "her coercive persuasion theory did not represent a meaningful concept." |
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| | Thought Reform: A Brief History |
| | Numerous authors on the subject of brainwashing, thought reform, or coercive persuasion point out that such programs and | | | The following year saw the further use of the term "thought re | | | form," as well as its twin "coercive persuasion," in the literature of psychiatry by Robert J. Lifton (2) and Edgar H. Schein, (3) |
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| | Alan Antonuk's Notes: ISS 210 Sect 2 10/10/2002 |
| | Coercive persuasion works as long as the coercive element is still there. | | | Cellmates demand to know what happened during interrogation so they can “help” with the confession | | | Lipton à studies done in China applied to brainwashing in cults(not congruous) |
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| | The Religious Movements Page: Conceptualizing Cults and Sects |
| | "Persuasive Techniques in Contemporary Cults: A Public Health Approach," in Cults and New Religious Movements. | | | See especially Ch 3, "The Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform," pp. | | | Zablocki, Benjamin D. "Exit Cost Analysis: A New Approach to the Scientific Study of Brainwashing." Nova Religio. |
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