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On the Web
- Social Influence Theories - Lecture notes covering cognitive dissonance theory, social influence, social judgment, the elaboration likelihood model, and the theory of reasoned action. No onward links.
- Primer of Practical Persuasion and Influence - Online coursebook by Steven Booth-Butterfield, for his course in Persuasion Theory and Research at West Virginia University.
- Attitudes, Persuasion, and Social Influence - A selection of categorised links.
- Working Psychology: Introduction to Influence - Overview of the science of persuasion, compliance, marketing, propaganda, and "brainwashing" from a psychological perspective, together with a discussion of ethics surrounding these issues.
- Groups - Hypertext teaching model covering attitudes, social influence, and group dynamics.
- The Battle for Your Mind - Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today - Documents common brainwashing techniques used, subliminal programming, and deprogramming. Uses fundamentalist preachers as a case example.
- Mackie, Diane M. - Persuasion, social influence, affect, intergroup processes, social perception (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
- Mind control or brainwashing - Article over the phenomenon, from the Skeptic's Dictionnary (A collection of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions and how to think critically about them).
- Stockholm Syndrome: An African American Perspective - Excerpt from the book "Gettin' to the Good Wood" by E. Joyce Moore.
- Brainwashing and mind control controversies - Large collection of documents from the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), including APA memoranda relating to brainwashing. Some articles in French, German or Italian.
Wikipedia Articles
- Persuasion - Persuasion is a form of social influence. It is the process of guiding people toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action by rational and symbolic (though not always logical) means.