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Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

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Social Learning Theory and Contagion Effects

I've always been intrigued by how otherwise healthy, seeming people can become radicalized relatively quickly to do horrible things. The more I thought about that, the more I realized, well, maybe this isn't so surprising in the modern world where you've already got a distracted and partially damaged prefrontal cortex. And then you've got maybe young people who are experimenting with different identities online,. not really clear who they are.

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