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Article
Analyzing Cults and Saving Believers on Cults from the Perspectives of Psychology
Author(s)
XU Bibo, LI Tian and YAN Meifu
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DOI:10.17265/2328-7136/2017.04.008
Affiliation(s)
Psychology Department, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
ABSTRACT
There
is cult leader who has not studied the psychology in a systematic way, but he
is very good at using some psychology principles to capture a large number of
believers and to make them follow him with their whole hearts. This article
takes the need theory, the psychological frustration theory, the cognitive
process theory and the theory of group psychological motivation as the
principles, and obtaining the event in the actual struggle with the cult, the
author reveals how the cult sets up the swindle with these theories and how the
cult organization is developed fast and how to control cult believers and how
they provide a service to themselves. The writers argue that when the cult
leader crazily steals the psychological theory to deceive others and murder
others and to loot money, we also should wave the psychological sword, and
should use the psychological theory and methods against the cult to rescue the
practitioners captured by cults, and the article also provides a strategy and
method which can be a reference.
KEYWORDS
Need theory, illusion, frustration theory, group dynamics theory.
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