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Change of Heart is a book I've been waiting for for a long time. I've been dismayed by how few progressive activists seem to take any interest in learning what science has to say about people can be induced to change their attitudes and behavior -- even though that's what activism is all about.
At last someone has written a book on the subject. Nick Cooney not only describes the results of rigorous experiments on the mechanisms of social influence, but details the way these findings can be applied for social change purposes, including how his own Humane League has already been applying them.
I am encouraging every socially concerned person I know to read this book.
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This book, which I purchased at a cultic studies conference a couple years ago, contains a lot of interesting and still-relevant material. Some parts make for disturbing and difficult reading, at least for an "ex-member" like myself. The descriptions of mind control and its effects may "trigger" someone who's experienced it before.
There a couple places where the research may not have been deep enough. In the chapter on teen Satanism, the author embarrasses himself somewhat by writing, "Another paperback often used by teens is the Necronomicon, apparently written by the 'Mad Arab' Abdul Alhazred (1977). The book supposedly teaches readers how to invoke demons." While the description of the contents fits the Necronomicon I've heard of, I'm sure that's not the author's real name. Before it was anything else, that title belonged to a fictitious tome mentioned in the science fiction/horror stories written by H.P. Lovecraft in the 1920s and '30s. It was described as having been written some thousand years ago by the same "mad Arab." The author of the book cited here evidently wanted to cash in by using the same title and pseudonym.
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Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us about Creating Social Change by Nick Cooney
Eric Hamell, January 12, 2011
Change of Heart is a book I've been waiting for for a long time. I've been dismayed by how few progressive activists seem to take any interest in learning what science has to say about people can be induced to change their attitudes and behavior -- even though that's what activism is all about.At last someone has written a book on the subject. Nick Cooney not only describes the results of rigorous experiments on the mechanisms of social influence, but details the way these findings can be applied for social change purposes, including how his own Humane League has already been applying them.
I am encouraging every socially concerned person I know to read this book.
(2 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)
Recovery from cults :help for victims of psychological and spiritual abuse by Michael D Langone
Eric Hamell, July 17, 2010
Michael Langone is editor of this anthology, not author of the book as a whole as suggested here. The chapter on teen Satansim is by Rob Tucker, M.Ed.Recovery from cults :help for victims of psychological and spiritual abuse by Michael D Langone
Eric Hamell, July 17, 2010
This book, which I purchased at a cultic studies conference a couple years ago, contains a lot of interesting and still-relevant material. Some parts make for disturbing and difficult reading, at least for an "ex-member" like myself. The descriptions of mind control and its effects may "trigger" someone who's experienced it before.There a couple places where the research may not have been deep enough. In the chapter on teen Satanism, the author embarrasses himself somewhat by writing, "Another paperback often used by teens is the Necronomicon, apparently written by the 'Mad Arab' Abdul Alhazred (1977). The book supposedly teaches readers how to invoke demons." While the description of the contents fits the Necronomicon I've heard of, I'm sure that's not the author's real name. Before it was anything else, that title belonged to a fictitious tome mentioned in the science fiction/horror stories written by H.P. Lovecraft in the 1920s and '30s. It was described as having been written some thousand years ago by the same "mad Arab." The author of the book cited here evidently wanted to cash in by using the same title and pseudonym.
Crewel Lye :Xanth 08 by Piers Anthony
Eric Hamell, July 4, 2010
Lots of awful puns, with a dash of sexism. A guilty pleasure.Underground Woman: My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor (Labor & Social Change) by Marian Swerdlow
Eric Hamell, February 21, 2010
Very absorbing. Takes you inside another world.1-5 of 23next