“Don’t let her leave!” The group leader had thoroughly worked her over, hammering her with guilt about her previous actions, accusing her of being delusional, telling her to confess, until she was no longer recognizable as a woman, but only as a blubbering mess of tearful convulsions. The tearful woman got up to flee the […]
When former President George H.W. Bush takes the stage to deliver the keynote address in honour of the 25th anniversary of the ultra-conservative Washington Times newspaper in mid-May, it will not be the first time he has spoken in support of one of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s enterprises.
And whatever fee Bush will realise from […]
A Conversation With Philip G. Zimbardo
Dr. Zimbardo, a social psychologist and the past president of the American Psychological Association, has made his reputation studying how people disguise the good and bad in themselves and under what conditions either is expressed.
His Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971, known as the S.P.E. in social science textbooks, showed how […]
The belief that a UFO would take them away to a better life led 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult to commit mass suicide on Wednesday, March 26, 1997. The 18 women and 21 men, ranging in age from 26 to 72, killed themselves along with their charismatic leader Marshall Herff Applewhite.
Calling themselves the […]
Many of the Heaven’s Gate adherents who were found dead in a Rancho Santa Fe mansion March 26, 1997, had been with the group for most of their adult lives. Their leader was Marshall Applewhite.
They were found with their bags packed. Most were neatly laid out on beds, covered with purple shrouds. They wore […]
Ten years ago, 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult committed mass suicide inside a Rancho Santa Fe mansion. First responders are still haunted by the gruesome discovery.
[…] It began unfolding the afternoon of Wednesday, March 26, 1997, during a period when the Hale-Bopp comet could be seen in the night sky.
Inside a mansion in […]
Unlocking the complex code of America’s most mysterious religion
The faded little downtown area of Clearwater, Florida […] No one crosses against the light, and everybody calls everybody else “sir” — even when the “sir” is a woman. They move throughout the center of Clearwater in tight clusters, from corner to corner, building to building.
This regimented […]
Understanding how good people turn evil
- by Philip Zimbardo -
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1. The Psychology of Evil: Situated Character Transformations
Chapter 2. Sunday’s Surprise Arrests
Chapter 3. Let Sunday’s Degradation Rituals Begin
Chapter 4. Monday’s Prisoner Rebellion
Chapter 5. Tuesday’s Double Trouble: Visitors and Rioters
Chapter 6. Wednesday Is Spiraling Out of Control
Chapter 7. The Power to Parole
Chapter 8. Thursday’s […]
Inside an Augusta church that proclaims there is no sin, and worships a man calling himself the Antichrist who wants to be president of the world.
The church is humble. The blinds are closed and the lights are off. A digital projector casts a square of light on the wall. […]
It was only this year that […]
The Church of Scientology has been in the spotlight as of late for many reasons.
John Travolta asserted last week that Anna Nicole Smith could have been saved if she had only joined the religion’s drug and alocohol dependency program.
Earlier, high-ranking Scientology officials declared that Tom Cruise is now the “Christ” of Scientology. English newspaper “The […]
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