Factors:                                     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10
                                             Low                      High
1. INTERNAL CONTROL: Amount of
internal political power exercised
by leader(s) over members.               1.  _____________________________

2. WISDOM CLAIMED by leader(s);
amount of infallibility declared
or implied about decisions or doc-
trinal/scriptural interpretations.       2.  _____________________________

3. WISDOM CREDITED to leader(s)
by members; amount of trust in
decisions or doctrinal/scriptural
interpretations made by leader(s).       3.  _____________________________

4. DOGMA: Rigidity of reality con-
cepts taught; amount of doctrinal
inflexibility or "fundamentalism."       4.  _____________________________

5. RECRUITING: Emphasis put on
attracting new members; amount
of proselytizing.                        5.  _____________________________

6. FRONT GROUPS: Number of subsid-
iary groups using different names
from that of main group.                 6.  _____________________________

7. WEALTH: Amount of money and/or
property desired or obtained by group;
emphasis on members' donations;
economic lifestyle of leader(s)
compared to ordinary members.            7.  _____________________________

8. POLITICAL POWER: Amount of
external political influence
desired or obtained; emphasis on
directing members' secular votes.        8.  _____________________________

9. SEXUAL MANIPULATION: of members
by leader(s); amount of control
exercised over sexuality of members;
advancement dependent upon sexual
favors or specific lifestyle.            9.  _____________________________

10. CENSORSHIP: Amount of control
over members' access to outside
opinions on group, its doctrines
or leader(s).                           10.  _____________________________

11. DROPOUT CONTROL: Intensity of
efforts directed at preventing or
returning dropouts.                     11.  _____________________________

12. VIOLENCE: amount of approval when
used by or for the group, its
doctrines or leader(s).                 12.  _____________________________

13. PARANOIA: amount of fear con-
cerning real or imagined enemies;
perceived power of opponents;
prevalence of conspiracy theories.      13.  _____________________________

14. GRIMNESS: Amount of disapproval
concerning jokes about the group,
its doctrines or its leader(s).         14.  _____________________________

15. SURRENDER OF WILL: Amount of
emphasis on members not having to
be responsible for personal deci-
sions; degree of individual dis-
empowerment created by the group,
its doctrines or its leader(s).         15.  _____________________________

16. HYPOCRISY: amount of approval for
other actions (not included above) 
which the group officially considers
immoral or unethical, when done by or 
for the group, its doctrines or 
leader(s); willingness to violate 
group's declared principles for 
political, psychological, economic,
or other gain.                          16.  _____________________________

                                             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10
                                             Low                      High
			

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