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		Coercive persuasion, or thought reform,2 is a coordinated technology of gradually applied, coercive influence and behavioral control.
		Coercive persuasion is the effective restraining, impairing, or compelling through the gradual and continuing application of psychological FORCES of intense anxiety\shame\guilt manipulation combined with strong emotional arousal.
		Coercive Fersuasion's "new technology" ability to alter attitude and belief unknowingly, moves the problem of determining sincerity beyond the effectiveness of traditional "good faith" and fraud tests, without in applicable cases, the additional inclusion of the examination of technical processes used, (not content).
	www.factnet.org /coerc1.htm (3894 words)

	COERCIVE PERSUASION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Coercive psychological techniques are mental, emotional and behavioral “change” methods which employ known psychological dynamics in a coercive way to induce the adoption of a “preferred” ideology or set of thoughts, beliefs, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors.
		Often the Coercive Persuasion tactic is to pressure the target to re-evaluate the most central values of his or her previous experience in a probing, questioning or outright negative light.
		The typical application of Coercive Persuasion is to introduce clandestine “facilitators,” or outright informers, whose assigned job is to create a destabilized atmosphere, leading to a general aura of mistrust or suspicion.
	www.worldnewsstand.net /04/sprpt/12-2.htm (6791 words)

	Persuasion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word "persuasion" is usually used in distinction to coercion, which involves the use of violence or other kinds of force, or the threat of such force in order to get someone to act against his will.
		Persuasion is often confused with manipulation, which is the act of guiding another towards something that is not in their best interest by subverting their thought processes.
		Persuasion is meant to benefit all parties in the end.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persuasion (205 words)

	Persuasion technology - Meta
		Persuasion technology (or persuasion aids or presentation aids or coercion aids or coercion technology) is the most general term for w:presentation technology and technologies used in w:brainwashing, w:cult recruiting and w:hard sell methodologies.
		Generally, persuasion technology is used to augment a human face-to-face or voice interaction, particularly in a selling or other situation where the seller seeks to gain an edge on the buyer.
		Persuasion technology is of particular interest to political leadership, who can exploit characteristics of certain media to ensure their message is heard, and not diluted, while simultaneously breaking up the dissent; The growth of 'w:narrowcasting' has made it possible to reach friends and avoid enemies - the w:email lists are the most obvious example.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Persuasion_technology (2320 words)

	Prevent and Remedy Coercive Persuasion, Brainwashing and Mind Control
		Coercive persuasion attempts to force people to change beliefs, ideas, attitudes or behaviors using psychological pressure, undue influence, threats, anxiety, intimidation and/or stress.
		Coercive persuasion can be seen in many organizations - such as terrorist or paramilitary organizations; some public schools and universities, aggressive sales organizations and in many cults and sects.
		Although coercive persuasion includes confusion, intimidation and victimization, the victims are often naive and unaware of the intense psychological attacks on their rationality and consciousness.
	www.systemiccoaching.com /coercion.htm (1361 words)

	Christian Recovery Forums - View Single Post - Emails re Shooting
		Coercive persuasion is not a religious practice, it is a control technology.
		Any organization using coercive persuasion on its members as a central practice that also claims to be a religion is turning the sanctuary of the First Amendment into a fortress for psychological assault.
		Coercive persuasion is a subtle, compelling psychological force which attacks an even more fundamental and important freedom than our "freedom of religion." Its reprehensibility and danger is that it attacks our self-determinism and free will, our most fundamental constitutional freedoms.
	www.christianrecovery.com /vb/showpost.php?p=6730&postcount=3 (1310 words)

	Evil and Persuasive Power: A Response to Hare and Madden
		The persuasive power of conceptual innovation in the vibration of an elementary particle is not subject to morally responsible rejection by the particle and is therefore coercive in this second sense.
		It is persuasive in the sense that it has the character of ideality and of final causation in contrast to the coercive quality of efficient causation.
		Persuasion, as conceptual innovation is coercive to the extent that it cannot be rejected and persuasive to the extent that it can be rejected by morally responsible freedom.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2412 (6688 words)

	null Outpost - International Open Forum for Jehovah's Witnesses and Other Interested Ones
		It is possible to distinguish dangerous groups which use coercive persuasion from peaceful persuasion groups by de-emphasizing their coincidental similarities and focusing on the methods of coercive persuasion.
		The relationship between the person and the coercive persuasion tactics is dynamic in that, while the force of the pressures, rewards, and punishments brought to bear on the person are considerable, they do not lead to a stable, meaningful, self-chosen reorganization of beliefs or values.
		Coercive persuasion is sufficiently effective to assure the recruitment of many of those approached and to retain many of those enlisted.
	www.freeminds.org /soup/coercive.htm (1331 words)

	COERCIVE PERSUASION AND SCIENTOLOGY
		With coercive persuasion this is not the case, it is far more devastating and effective when your apparent "friends" or organizational allies are surreptitiously applying coercive persuasion techniques to gain control of an individuals behavior and independent decision making abilities.
		Coercive persuasion is not a religious practice it is a control technology.
		Any organization using coercive persuasion as a central practice that also claims to be a religion is a contradiction of terms.
	www.caic.org.au /psyther/sci/cp-scn.htm?FACTNet (922 words)

	Feb 22, 2002 Author Interview
		Persuasion and persuasion studies take into account both the methods of persuasion used by the first party, as well as the second party's tendency for and against being persuaded.
		Coercive persuasion, then, implies that this is an interpersonal dynamic which involves many aspects of the people involved, including emotions, imagination, memory, etc., as well as thought.
		B: As far as using coercive persuasion for good...Because you are being changed without your knowledge or consent, there WILL be inevitable psychological distress on the part of the target.
	www.beth-young.com /inter.html (1504 words)

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		A coercive persuasion program is a behavioral change technology applied to cause the "learning" and "adoption" of a set of behaviors or an ideology under certain conditions.
		Coercive persuasion programs are effective because individuals experiencing the deliberately planned severe stresses they generate can only reduce the pressures by accepting the system or adopting the behaviors being promulgated by the purveyors of the coercion program.
		Victims of coercive persuasion have : no signs of physical abuse, convincing rationalizations for the radical or abrupt changes in their behavior, a convincing "sincerity," and they have been changed so gradually that they don't oppose it because they usually aren't even aware of it.
	www.whyaretheydead.net /misc/Factnet/FACTPACK.TXT (14237 words)

	You'll never think the same way again. . . The Revelation
		Coercive persuasion or thought reform as it is sometimes known, is best understood as a coordinated system of graduated coercive influence and behavior control designed to deceptively and surreptitiously manipulate and influence individuals, usually in a group setting, in order for the originators of the program to profit in some way, normally financially or politically.
		Victims of coercive persuasion have: no signs of physical abuse, convincing rationalizations for the radical or abrupt changes in their behavior, a convincing "sincerity, and they have been changed so gradually that they don't oppose it because they usually aren't even aware of it.
		Coercive persuasion is unfair manipulation of the biological and psychological weaknesses and susceptibilities of one's fellow men.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /mindcontrol/index.htm (3737 words)

	Jehovah's Witnesses United
		Instead, their seminal work found coercive persuasion "applicable to all instances of persuasion or influence in which the person is constrained by physical, social or psychological forces from leaving the influencing situation." Coercive Persuasion, supra, at 269.
		Although Dr. Singer and Dr. Ofshe are respected members of their fields, their theories regarding the coercive persuasion practiced by religious cults are not sufficiently established to be admitted as evidence in federal courts of law.
		Defendant thus seeks to introduce evidence regarding the influence techniques, or coercive persuasion, utilized by the Church of Scientology to negate the government's contention that the defendant possessed the requisite specific [**25] intent to commit fraud.
	jehovah.to /gen/freedom/fishman.htm (5087 words)

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		Coercive persuasion undermines the individuals defenses, perception, values, attitudes, conduct, and ability to reason without physical force.
		Coercive persuasion is not magic nor is it infallible.
		The "notes" of peaceful persuasion like a fiery, guilt ridden sermon, a strong sales pitch, or a potentially suggestibility increasing private meditation practice do not provide the continuous "orchestrational" multi technique intensity or depth of exteriorly generated deception needed for a C.P. program to be effective.
	skull.piratehaven.org /~atman/factnet/cp1.txt (3451 words)

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		Coercive persuasion undermines the individuals defenses, perception, values, attitudes, conduct, and ability to reason without physical force.
		Coercive persuasion is not magic nor is it infallible.
		Sometimes, peaceful persuasion may imitate or superficially use a few tactics of C.P. But, if an influence program standardly uses a majority of C.P. techniques and emphasizes the outside assault upon the individual's self concepts it would not be Peaceful persuasion.
	www.piratehaven.org /~atman/factnet/cp1.txt (3451 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> brainwashing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They defined coercive persuasion as a mixture of social, psychological and physical pressures applied to produce changes in an individual's beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.
		In their testimony, they stated that anti-cult theories of brainwashing, mind control, or coercive persuasion were generally accepted concepts within the scientific community.
		The American Psychological Association (APA) in 1983 asked Margaret Singer, one of the leading proponents of coercive persuasion theories, to chair a taskforce called DIMPAC to investigate whether brainwashing or "coercive persuasion" did indeed play a role in recruitment by such movements.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/brainwashing (4393 words)

	Persuasion - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Persuasion is the process of convincing someone to believe or act on something.
		The word "persuasion" is usually used in distinction to coercion, which involves the use of violence or other kinds of force, or the threat of such force; however, the word has sometimes been used as a euphemism for coercion.
		This article is about non-coercive methods of persuasion.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Persuasion (114 words)

	Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Coercive persuasion and thought reform are alternate names for programs of social influence capable of producing substantial behavior and attitude change through the use of coercive tactics, persuasion, and/or interpersonal and group-based influence manipulations (Schein 1961; Lifton 1961).
		They shared the utilization of coercive persuasion's key effective-influence mechanisms: a focused attack on the stability of a person's sense of self; reliance on peer group interaction; the development of interpersonal bonds between targets and their controllers and peers; and an ability to control communication among participants.
		Media reports about thought reform's effects far exceed the findings of scientific studies--which show coercive persuasion's upper limit of impact to be that of inducing personal confusion and significant, but typically transitory, attitude change.
	www.xs4all.nl /~anco/mental/randr/ofshe.htm (3476 words)

	LP: PSYOPS and "Coercive Persuasion"
		Coercive psychological techniques are mental, emotional and behavioral “change” methods which employ known psychological dynamics in a coercive way to induce the adoption of a “preferred” ideology or set of thoughts, beliefs, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors.
		Often the Coercive Persuasion tactic is to pressure the target to re-evaluate the most central values of his or her previous experience in a probing, questioning or outright negative light.
		The typical application of Coercive Persuasion is to introduce clandestine “facilitators,” or outright informers, whose assigned job is to create a destabilized atmosphere, leading to a general aura of mistrust or suspicion.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=22461 (7251 words)

	Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change
		By Richard J. Ofshe, Ph.D. Coercive persuasion and thought reform are alternate names for programs of social influence capable of producing substantial behavior and attitude change through the use of coercive tactics, persuasion, and/or interpersonal and group-based influence manipulations (Schein 1961; Lifton 1961).
		They shared the utilization of coercive persuasion's key effective-influence mechanisms: a focused attack on the stability of a person's sense of self; reliance on peer group interaction; the development of interpersonal bonds between targets and their controllers and peers; and an ability to control communication among participants.
		Media reports about thought reform's effects far exceed the findings of scientific studies--which show coercive persuasion's upper limit of impact to be that of inducing personal confusion and significant, but typically transitory, attitude change.
	www.rickross.com /reference/brainwashing/brainwashing8.html (5281 words)

	Fingarette, "Coercion, Coercive Persuasion, and the Law"
		And that also seems to be the sort of thing that is at issue when there are allegations of coercive persuasion, or brainwashing, or thought reform.
		My impression is that "coercive persuasion" cases will properly fall under the law as to mental incompetence and not the law on coercion.
		Methods of persuasion that might be plainly wrong in law when used in, for example, an economic or domestic context, may very well be protected by the claim that they are intrinsic to religious worship.
	www.lermanet.com /cos/Robbins.html (4761 words)

	CRInfo - Book Summary of Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War by Alexander George
		As George explains it, "The general idea of coercive diplomacy is to back one's demand on an adversary with a threat of punishment for noncompliance that he will consider credible and potent enough to persuade him to comply with the demand."[p.
		Coercive diplomacy involves four basic variables: the demand, the means used for creating a sense of urgency, the threatened punishment for noncompliance, and the possible use of incentives.
		Because the key factors influencing the success or failure of coercive diplomacy are psychological in nature, it is very difficult to predict or guarantee success in any particular case.
	www.crinfo.org /booksummary/10227 (817 words)

	What is Mind Control?
		Coercive persuasion and subliminal messaging are used for mind control.
		Coercive persuasion is widely used by cults in order to influence members.
		In order to determine if coercive persuasion is being used it is necessary to see if the person held enough knowledge to make the decision to change their beliefs and attitudes on there own and therefore if the individual adopted the beliefs and attitudes on their own.
	www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk /studentwebs/session4/46/mind.htm (578 words)

	Coercive Mind Control Tactics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Coercive psychological systems are behavioral change programs which use psychological force in a coercive way to cause the learning and adoption of an ideology or designated set of beliefs, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors.
		Coercive psychological systems are distinguished from benign social learning or peaceful persuasion by the specific conditions under which they are conducted.
		These conditions include the type and number of coercive psychological tactics used, the severity of environmental and interpersonal manipulation, and the amount of psychological force employed to suppress particular unwanted behaviors and to train desired behaviors.
	www.integrativespirituality.org /coercivemindcontrol.html (980 words)

	Society for Organizational Learning
		The coercive element of coercive persuasion comes into play in that the easiest way for the learner to avoid the anxiety of examining his or her own tacit assumptions is to walk away from the situation.
		Coercive persuasion as a concept was first developed in trying to understand the seeming conversions and collaborative behavior of prisoners of war who were subjected to interrogation and indoctrination during World War II and particularly during the Korean conflict (Schein, 1956, 1961).
		I described the process these prisoners went through as "coercive persuasion" to indicate that if a prisoner was physically restrained from leaving a situation in which learning was the only alternative, they would eventually learn through a process of cognitive redefinition.
	www.solonline.org /res/wp/10010.html (3338 words)

	Persuasive and Coercive Power in Process Metaphysics
		Coercive power has often been described as "external force." But psychoanalysis regards this as misleading because welling up "inside" the individual seem to be all sorts of forces which are greatly coercive.
		To be sure, persuasion cannot be persuasion unless it respects the claims of the desires and wants to enjoy satisfaction.
		Like effective and respectful therapy, persuasion brings about new wants and aims, but it does so, not by coercion or by frustrating desires, but by opening new possibilities, which is the result of divine "creativity." To be sure, this world of desires and means is not neat, and some coercion is inevitable.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2413 (2228 words)

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