Gender, Confidence & Conformity - What’s the Connection?
In their 2017 research about the intersection of gender, confidence, and conformity, Cross et al state that “confidence is implicated as a strong predictor of susceptibility to social influence, and wherever there is evidence for a sex difference in confidence, an indirect effect of sex on social influence via confidence is likely” (Cross et al, 2017).
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) - Does it really exist?
Skeptics call Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) a medical fad from the 80s. Recent YouTube drama has reignited criticism. However, clinical and neurobiological evidence points to its validity as an extreme response to trauma.
“Heavens Gate: Cult of Cults” - A Jehovah’s Witness Viewer Response
I used to avoid documentaries about cult-like groups. But as a newly awakening Physically-In-Mentally-Out (PIMO) JW, I gobbled up HBO’s 4-episode documentary in one blissfully bingeful Sunday afternoon.
“A Captive Organization” - The Life of a PIMO Jehovah’s Witness
Because of my upbringing and active membership as one of JWs, the dialogue between Mr. Stewart and Geoffrey Jackson (made available on YouTube) was my first exposure to this unique identifier of WTS. Stewart’s use of “captive organization” was fresh and arresting, bypassing the well-oiled psychological defenses and synaptic potentiation of my cultural theology.
Frankly, it set me back.
How Analyzing ISIS’s Recruitment Tactics Helped Liberate Me from Psychological Captivity
As my cognition bifurcated away from the infantile spiritual fantasies of my religious upbringing, I saw more and more connections between the culture and theology of Jehovah’s Witnesses and that of my Muslim neighbors
The Spectrum of Conformity & Obedience — From Cults to Cocktail Parties
Conformity and obedience were the focus of much early research in the burgeoning field of social psychology. But social conformity and obedience have a darker side.