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A Response to Academics Who Say There Is No Undue Influence in Destructive Cults

By Steven Hassan|2018-10-01T19:15:57+00:00June 28th, 2018|Categories: Blog|Tags: Apostate, BITE model, Brainwashing, Freedom of Mind, Jehovah's Witnesses, LDS, Mind Control, Moonies, Mormon, Scientology, Steven Hassan, Undue Influence, Jon Atack, Reddit, military, World Mission Society Church of God, MLM, TM, Jim Jones, Multi-level Marketing, FLDS, Freedom From Undue Influence, Cults, Anthony Pratkanis, Margaret Singer, apologists, cult apologists, destructive cults, social influence, John Dehlin, straw man, fallacy, rebuttal, academics, sociologists, New Religious Movements, Zimbardo, NRM, Irving Hexham, Karla Poewe, Robert Cialdini, Taylor, Robert Lifton, Edgar Schein, Louis Jolyon West, Chinese, Communist, Mao, pimps, traffickers, Melton, Terrorists, Political Cults, J. Gordon Melton, James R. Lewis, Aum Shinrikyo, Shoko Asahara, Stephen Kent, Theresa Krebs, Nova Religio, Benjamin Zablocki, Eileen Barker, INFORM, Tom Robbins, bias, doctrine, Janja Lalic, Dominiek Coates, Group Influence Scale, Saldana, Rodriguez-Carballeira, Almendros, Escartin, cult defenders, sociologists of religion|

June 28, 2018 This Influence Continuum graphic describes my model for evaluating influence–from the healthy to the unhealthy. My BITE model offers a list of concerning practices that represent unhealthy mind control: Behavior, Information, Thought and Emotional control designed to create dependent and obedient slaves to a person or ideology. One example of many is the lack [...]