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The Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism: What Have We Learned Since Jonestown?
By Janja Lalich — 2013
I do not deny that positive experiences occur in a cult context, but what is of interest for me is the interactional dynamic found in cults that brings moral human beings to occasionally engage in insidious or demeaning behaviors, or sometimes just the plain incomprehensible.
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