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Cult indoctrination utilizes compliance to breed . In addition, cults recruit new members by eliciting commitments through the phenomenon.
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Successful cults have a leader, and use vivid, messages. Recruits are often under age , and are at a turning point in their lives or facing a personal . Members are usually separated from their previous support systems and with other cultists.
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A prior public to one's position, stimulated perhaps by a attack on the position, breeds resistance to later persuasion. The attack on one's belief stimulates one to develop that immunize against further attacks.
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Large-scale programs have been successful in inoculating children against peer pressure to and against the influence of . Inoculation research suggests we can build our own resistance to persuasion by being listeners and thinkers.







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