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H12 states that S will be greater than C. In other words, the savings to the collectivity due
to decreased surveillance needs is greater than the cost of maintaining the brainwashing
program. Only where S is greater than C does it make sense to maintain a brainwashing
program. Cults with initially high surveillance costs and, therefore, high potential savings
due to decreased surveillance needs [S] will tend to be more likely to brainwash, as will
cults structured so that the cost of maintaining the brainwashing system [C] are relatively
low.
References
Anthony, Dick. (2001). Tactical ambiguity and brainwashing formulations. In Benjamin
Zablocki &Thomas Robbins (Eds.), Misunderstanding cults: Searching for objectivity
in a controversial field (pp. 215-317). Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Zablocki, Benjamin. (2001). Towards a demystified and disinterested scientific theory of
brainwashing. In Benjamin Zablocki &Thomas Robbins (Eds.), Misunderstanding
cults: Searching for objectivity in a controversial field (pp. 159-214). Toronto:
University of Toronto Press
Zablocki, Benjamin, &Robbins, Thomas (Eds.). (2001). Misunderstanding cults: Searching
for objectivity in a controversial field (pp. 215-317). Toronto: University of Toronto
Press.
H12 states that S will be greater than C. In other words, the savings to the collectivity due
to decreased surveillance needs is greater than the cost of maintaining the brainwashing
program. Only where S is greater than C does it make sense to maintain a brainwashing
program. Cults with initially high surveillance costs and, therefore, high potential savings
due to decreased surveillance needs [S] will tend to be more likely to brainwash, as will
cults structured so that the cost of maintaining the brainwashing system [C] are relatively
low.
References
Anthony, Dick. (2001). Tactical ambiguity and brainwashing formulations. In Benjamin
Zablocki &Thomas Robbins (Eds.), Misunderstanding cults: Searching for objectivity
in a controversial field (pp. 215-317). Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Zablocki, Benjamin. (2001). Towards a demystified and disinterested scientific theory of
brainwashing. In Benjamin Zablocki &Thomas Robbins (Eds.), Misunderstanding
cults: Searching for objectivity in a controversial field (pp. 159-214). Toronto:
University of Toronto Press
Zablocki, Benjamin, &Robbins, Thomas (Eds.). (2001). Misunderstanding cults: Searching
for objectivity in a controversial field (pp. 215-317). Toronto: University of Toronto
Press.
