Introduction to the Influence Continuum
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
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The Fundamental Attribution Error in Social Psychology
The fundamental attribution error is considered to be the most important principle of social psychology. It's a bias, an unconscious bias, that when you trying to figure out why other people do what they do, that you overemphasize personality variables and underestimate social psychological variables. So why did steve begettin the moonies? Cause he was weak. He wasn't didn't come from a good family, in't have proper religious education, something like that. Verses: "He had no idea these were not students, that they were looking hem right in the eye"
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