Social Psychological Techniques of Cults

With the development of religious culture, a extreme form of religion-cult is also becoming more rampant, they use specific means to brainwash the minds of believers and manipulate their behaviors, which negatively affects their physical and mental health. In this paper, This paper will analyze the foot-in-the-door technique and deindividuation used by the cult the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG) to explain the reasons why believers, after joining into the cult, end up in self-immolations. Also, this paper will give a solution to improve the social consequence - more people fall into the cult and end up following the organization's instructions to commit suicide - by placing more advertisements that popularize the cult's brainwashing techniques to the public in order to provide a forewarning to better resistance to the cult's persuasions, however, this method also has the disadvantage of being ineffective when the target audience is distracted.