High Control Group

A social group or movement in which the members are strongly influenced by the suggestions of a group leader or group as a whole and in which dissent or reflection on the ideology are discouraged. Often incorporates a narrative about an ingroup and outgroup.

This type of group will often adopt a disfigurement of language and thought terminating cliches in order to communicate within the ingroup.

See also madness-crowds, bandwagon bias, whataboutism and thought terminating cliches.

References

  1. Bernstein, William J. 2021. The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups. Grove Press.
  2. Montell, Amanda, and Ann Marie Gideon. Cultish. HarperAudio, 2021.
  3. Hoffer, Eric. "The True Believer (New York." Harper's (1952): 28.
  4. Festinger, Leon, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. When prophecy fails: A social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world. Lulu Press, Inc, 2017.
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