PSYCO335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Facilitation, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance
26 Mar 2018
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Cult: structured groupm most of whose members show unquestioned loyalty to a dynamic leader. In common: origin, power structure, and governance. the thing all cults have in common is a leader; no hierarchy. everyone is at the same level except for the leader. The main difference is, in military for example, even though there"s unquestioned loyalty, there"s still a hierarchy: kinds. Not everyone joins a cult; they join a club; an interest group that promises to ful ll some kind of needs people have. all kinds of ethnicity, ages, talents, careers, etc can be in cults. 2/3 of people in cults come from happy, middle class families. not from a traumatic backgrounds. average people join cults. Situational factors (environment) and recruiting techniques: use very strong and aggressive brain-wash techniques. but not all; some ways are normal principles eg. give and you shall have something in return: tactics:
