Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1995, page 45
Rosenblum, E.H. (1982). Groupthink: One peril of group cohesiveness. Journal of Nursing
Administration, 12, 27-31.
Sanders, B.C. (1980). Avoiding the groupthink zoo. Supervision, 42, 10-13.
Sims, R.R. (1992). Linking groupthink to unethical behavior in organizations. Journal of
Business Ethics, 11, 651-662.
Turner, R., &Killian, L.M. (1987). Collective behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Wynden, P. (1979). Bay of Pigs: The untold story. New York: Simon &Schuster.
Zimbardo, P.G. (1970). The human choice: Individuation, reason and order versus
deindividuation, impulse and chaos. In W.J. Arnold &D. Levine (Eds.), Nebraska
symposium on motivation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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Mark N. Wexler, Ph.D., is Professor of Policy Studies and Director of Research in the
Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia,
Canada. Wexler‟s research focuses on manipulative persuasion used in corporate contexts.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1995, Volume 12,
Number 1, pages 49-71. 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.
Rosenblum, E.H. (1982). Groupthink: One peril of group cohesiveness. Journal of Nursing
Administration, 12, 27-31.
Sanders, B.C. (1980). Avoiding the groupthink zoo. Supervision, 42, 10-13.
Sims, R.R. (1992). Linking groupthink to unethical behavior in organizations. Journal of
Business Ethics, 11, 651-662.
Turner, R., &Killian, L.M. (1987). Collective behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Wynden, P. (1979). Bay of Pigs: The untold story. New York: Simon &Schuster.
Zimbardo, P.G. (1970). The human choice: Individuation, reason and order versus
deindividuation, impulse and chaos. In W.J. Arnold &D. Levine (Eds.), Nebraska
symposium on motivation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
*********************
Mark N. Wexler, Ph.D., is Professor of Policy Studies and Director of Research in the
Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia,
Canada. Wexler‟s research focuses on manipulative persuasion used in corporate contexts.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1995, Volume 12,
Number 1, pages 49-71. 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.








































































