{"id":26691,"date":"2009-06-26T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/26\/how-cults-rewire-the-brain\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T20:05:00","slug":"how-cults-rewire-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/how-cults-rewire-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"how cults rewire the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diane Benscoter<\/strong> spent five years as a &#8220;Moonie.&#8221; She shares an insider&#8217;s perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today&#8217;s most troubling conflicts and extremist movements.<br \/>\n<object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/DianeBenscoter_2009U-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DianeBenscoter-2009U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=578\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Benscoter spent five years as a &#8220;Moonie.&#8221; She shares an insider&#8217;s perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today&#8217;s most troubling conflicts and extremist movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Wv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}