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*The group has a top-down, pyramid structure. The dominating ego leaders must have verbal ways of never losing. Victims are not allowed to question, criticize or complain -- if they do, the leaders allege that the victim is defective -- not the organization or the beliefs. | *The group has a top-down, pyramid structure. The dominating ego leaders must have verbal ways of never losing. Victims are not allowed to question, criticize or complain -- if they do, the leaders allege that the victim is defective -- not the organization or the beliefs. | ||
*The individual is always wrong -- the system, its leaders and its belief are always right. | *The individual is always wrong -- the system, its leaders and its belief are always right. | ||
*Remolding of the individual victim happens in a closed system. As victims learn to modify their behavior in order to be accepted in this closed system, | *Remolding of the individual victim happens in a closed system. As victims learn to modify their behavior in order to be accepted in this closed system, they change -- begin to speak the language -- which serves to further isolate them from their prior beliefs and behaviors. | ||
they change -- begin to speak the language -- which serves to further isolate them from their prior beliefs and behaviors. | |||
==Social psychology tactics== | ==Social psychology tactics== | ||
A contemporary view of mind control sees it as an intensified and persistent use of well researched social psychology principles like compliance, conformity, persuasion, dissonance, reactance, framing or emotional manipulation. | A contemporary view of mind control sees it as an intensified and persistent use of well researched social psychology principles like compliance, conformity, persuasion, dissonance, reactance, framing or emotional manipulation. |