The psychological tricks that make cults so dangerous

from All In The Mind · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Popular culture is endlessly fascinated with cults, and they have to capacity to make ordinary people do unthinkable things.So how do cults reel people in and what does it take to leave?

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