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Hello and welcome to Part 2 on a series of Mormon Stories, on a series discussion about

the psychology of religion.

I'm here with Dr. James Nagel.

Hey James.

Hello.

Hey, and I just want to remind our listeners that all of this not only is available in

Audio Format, but also up on YouTube at youtube.com slash Mormon Stories.

You can see the videos that correspond to what we're going to be talking about or you can

download the PowerPoints from MormonStories.org, but the visuals are extremely helpful.

So check them out if you can.

I'm here with James and the first hour we've already talked about a little bit of background,

but mostly we talked about a few things.

Let me see if I can recap James.

Number one is that people are susceptible to highly susceptible to social influences

and peer pressure to the point where they will often conform to things that they either

don't believe at all or that they, if they question, they're, you know, often times

likely to conform to the peer pressure to social pressure around them.

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