BITE axis: Thought
Thought reform
Robert Lifton's term (Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, 1961) for the systematic process by which an environment reshapes individual cognition. Operationalised through eight criteria: milieu control, mystical manipulation, demand for purity, confession, sacred science, loaded language, doctrine-over-person, and dispensing of existence. The foundational framework that the BITE model and bounded-choice theory both build on.
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