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18. Stephen J. Morgan.
19. Phillip G. Zimbardo, ―The Human Choice: Individuation, Reason, and Order Versus
Deindividuation, Impulse, and Chaos,‖ in W. T. Arnold and D. Levine (eds.), Nebraska Symposium on
Motivation, vol. 17 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1969), pp. 237–307.
20. B. Mullen, ―Atrocity as a Function of Lynch Mob Composition: A Self-Attention Perspective,‖
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 12, pp. 187-197.
21. Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Boston:
Little, Brown, 1995).
22. Henri Tajfel (ed.), Social Identity and Intergroup Relations (Cambridge, England: Cambridge
University Press, 1982).
23. James Waller, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press, 2002).
24. Dave Grossman.
25. Richard Holmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle (New York: Free Press, 1986).
26. Stanley Milgram, ―Behavioral Study of Obedience,‖ Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,
vol. 67, 1963, pp. 371–378.
27. Thomas Robbins.
28. Donelson R. Forsyth.
29. Serge Moscovici, ―Social Influence and Conformity,‖ in G. Linzey and Elliot Aronson (eds.),
Handbook of Social Psychology, 3rd ed. (New York: Random House, 1985) ,pp. 347–412.
30. Donelson R. Forsyth.
31. James Waller.
Acknowledgement
Reprinted with the author's permission from Journal of Homeland Security, March 2004.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/Articles/stahelski.html
Anthony Stahelski received his Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology from the
University of California at Los Angeles in 1981. He is a professor at Central Washington
University and director of the Master‘s Program in Organization Development, which trains
leaders to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of groups and organizations. His
research interests focus on various dynamics of small group interaction, particularly as
manifested in cults and extremist groups. He has taught courses on the psychology of
terrorism and has presented seminars on the mindset of a terrorist to law enforcement
personnel in the state of Washington.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review, 2005, Volume 4,
Number 1, pages 30-40. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
18. Stephen J. Morgan.
19. Phillip G. Zimbardo, ―The Human Choice: Individuation, Reason, and Order Versus
Deindividuation, Impulse, and Chaos,‖ in W. T. Arnold and D. Levine (eds.), Nebraska Symposium on
Motivation, vol. 17 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1969), pp. 237–307.
20. B. Mullen, ―Atrocity as a Function of Lynch Mob Composition: A Self-Attention Perspective,‖
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 12, pp. 187-197.
21. Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Boston:
Little, Brown, 1995).
22. Henri Tajfel (ed.), Social Identity and Intergroup Relations (Cambridge, England: Cambridge
University Press, 1982).
23. James Waller, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press, 2002).
24. Dave Grossman.
25. Richard Holmes, Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle (New York: Free Press, 1986).
26. Stanley Milgram, ―Behavioral Study of Obedience,‖ Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,
vol. 67, 1963, pp. 371–378.
27. Thomas Robbins.
28. Donelson R. Forsyth.
29. Serge Moscovici, ―Social Influence and Conformity,‖ in G. Linzey and Elliot Aronson (eds.),
Handbook of Social Psychology, 3rd ed. (New York: Random House, 1985) ,pp. 347–412.
30. Donelson R. Forsyth.
31. James Waller.
Acknowledgement
Reprinted with the author's permission from Journal of Homeland Security, March 2004.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/Articles/stahelski.html
Anthony Stahelski received his Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology from the
University of California at Los Angeles in 1981. He is a professor at Central Washington
University and director of the Master‘s Program in Organization Development, which trains
leaders to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of groups and organizations. His
research interests focus on various dynamics of small group interaction, particularly as
manifested in cults and extremist groups. He has taught courses on the psychology of
terrorism and has presented seminars on the mindset of a terrorist to law enforcement
personnel in the state of Washington.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review, 2005, Volume 4,
Number 1, pages 30-40. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
