Mind Control

Mandated Shunning: A Core Manipulation Tactic in High-Control Groups

Imagine being told that leaving a group could mean losing contact with the people you love most....

Cognitive dissonance is perhaps the most fundamental concept for an understanding of undue...

Amber Scorah’s “Leaving The Witness” A good writer can hook and hold you from start to finish with...

Psychological studies have repeatedly shown how easily rational thinking is bypassed. Our...

Open Minds would like to give a shout-out to bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein and his new book,...

With more than 8,000,000 purported members, it is likely Jehovah's Witnesses are the foremost...

The great problem with undue influence is that it has a before and an after, but no during. While...