"To be explained: It feels to me that in recent years, people have gotten stupider, or that stupid has gotten bigger, or that the parts of people that were always stupid have gotten louder, or something like that.I’ve come up with a suite of hypotheses to explain this (with a little help from my friends). … Continue reading [Question] Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses.
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Cults: Dissociation, Group Psychology, and Cognitive Dissonance
""How does cult psychology work? How is it possible to persuade human adults to enter a weird cognitive landscapewith no basis in reality? To enter a fantasy realm so profound that they’ll willingly die for whomever has been selected as the local Messiah?"--Matthew J Sharps Ph.D, "Cults and Cognition: Programming the True Believer." Psychology Today. … Continue reading Cults: Dissociation, Group Psychology, and Cognitive Dissonance
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