The study shows that pseudo religions are characterized by rapid spread and development, so it is a new approach to identify pseudo religions through this feature. The psychological mystery hidden in this characteristic is to turn believers into "mad missionaries", and this change is a result that believers are forced to preach pseudo religions by virtue of their fear to supernatural "Gods", their worship to "leaders of religions", their need going to heaven and by virtue of "Archimedes Effect" believed; leaders smartly force believers to preach religions through stimulation and incentives, and encourage believers to preach religions by virtue of endogenous incentives. This new approach and exposure of psychological basis relying on approach are significantly important to prevent formation and expansion of pseudo religions as well as even elimination. Keywords: leader worship, mad missionary, archimedes effect, endogenous incentives Rapid Identification of Pseudo Religions Through Symbolic Features After the publicity and education on keeping away from pseudo religions for over decades in mainland China, most people know that pseudo religion is a malignant tumor all over the world, and object it. In recent years, in order to effectively prevent harm of pseudo religions on society, people, especially the young, and theoretical circles also conduct a profound research and exposure to pseudo religions through their characteristics so as to tell people how to identify pseudo religions through these characteristics, and keep way from them; meanwhile, they also list characteristics of pseudo religions at home and abroad different from those of orthodox religions: the "evil" in pseudo religions is that the living is viewed as secular worship leader of God. It controls believers mentally through brainwashing, hates reality and human development, harms believers, promotes witchcraft and superstitious culture and amasses wealth violently; if the public is told these features, they will identify pseudo religions rather than deceit, and they will identify them with orthodox religions, say no to and keep away from them, reaching the result of preventing spread of pseudo religions.However, just as the saying that while the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten, pseudo religions good at disguising and deceiving always avoid exposure subtly and deceive believers to spread evils in the name of orthodox religions with changes. They are accustomed to stealing concept terminology, banners and titles of orthodox religions, and their members walk in the country holding scriptures and humorlessly talk about the Buddha speaks and Jesus Christ for the purpose of confusing audience, misleading believers and developing
Despite a growing body of research on the relationship between justice and perceptions of an authority's legitimacy, few studies have addressed the effects of changes in justice on perceived legitimacy. In the present study, we tested a dynamic model emphasizing the interactive influences of both interpersonal justice trajectories and current experience predicting perceived legitimacy. We tested the trajectory of interpersonal justice over time as a predictor of perceived legitimacy (Study 1) and the current experience of justice as a moderator of this link (Study 2). In Study 1 participants were randomly assigned to receive either improving or declining feedback from an anonymous tutor over the course of four days. Results showed that participants with an improving trajectory perceived the authority to have higher legitimacy. In Study 2 participants rated the tutor's fairness on 3 consecutive weeks, which were used to identify naturally interpersonal trajectories; we then manipulated the current interpersonal justice experience in the fourth week. Results showed that the trajectory effect was significant when the current experience was just, but not when it was unjust.
There is cult leader who has not studied the psychology in a systematic way, but he is very good at using some psychology principles to capture a large number of believers and to make them follow him with their whole hearts. This article takes the need theory, the psychological frustration theory, the cognitive process theory and the theory of group psychological motivation as the principles, and obtaining the event in the actual struggle with the cult, the author reveals how the cult sets up the swindle with these theories and how the cult organization is developed fast and how to control cult believers and how they provide a service to themselves. The writers argue that when the cult leader crazily steals the psychological theory to deceive others and murder others and to loot money, we also should wave the psychological sword, and should use the psychological theory and methods against the cult to rescue the practitioners captured by cults, and the article also provides a strategy and method which can be a reference.
How to let the persons who join heretic sects wrongly break away from the cults is regarded as a difficult problem in the world. This authors sum up the four kinds of effective methods through their over 10 years' experiences that they had persuaded and educated the followers of heretic sects through psychology principles in mainland China.The methods include cognitive disorder, debate method, psychological hint method and psychological diagnosis method.
It is a worldwide problem to let the destructive cult believers detached from the destructive cult. The most difficult point is that it is difficult to change the destructive cult belief. The reason why the destructive cult faith is difficult to change is because that the destructive cults embezzled the basic concepts and doctrines of many legitimate religions in the construction of the destructive cult faith, which make the destructive cults and religious beliefs have many similarities in psychology, including the tenacity and stability of faith. The believers tend to believe it as a orthodox legitimate religion. The article points out the similarity that makes destructive cult beliefs hard to change and lists the ways to identify heretical beliefs.
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