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• ChangingMinds: Lifton's Brainwashing Processes.
• Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Brainwashing
• PsychologyToday: The Brainwashing Defense
• The Skeptic's Dictionary: Mind Control (Brainwashing)
• Working Psychology: Introduction to Influence

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• Adams, Cecil. "Is brainwashing possible?" The Straight Dope.
  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050318.html
• "Brainwashing." ChangingMinds.
  http://changingminds.org/techniques/conversion/brainwashing.htm
• "Brainwashing." Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology.
  http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0000/ai_2699000045/print
• Flora, Carlin. "The Brainwashing Defense." PsychologyToday.
  http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20031209-000001.html
• "Introduction to Influence." Working Psychology.
  http://www.workingpsychology.com/definit.html
• "Lifton's Brainwashing Processes." ChangingMinds.
  http://changingminds.org/techniques/conversion/lifton_brainwashing.htm
• "Positive Psychology of POW Survival." International Network on Personal Meaning.
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• "Schein's stages of conversion." ChangingMinds.
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• "Sniper Malvo sentenced to life without parole." CNN.com. May 5, 2004.
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