{"id":224839,"date":"2026-05-09T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224839"},"modified":"2026-05-09T23:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:59:15","slug":"the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224839","title":{"rendered":"The sneaky language tricks cults use to influence you | Amanda Montell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the age of social media and wellness trends, the comments section is as good as a cult compound, says linguist and cultural commentator Amanda Montell. Using Taylor Swift\u2019s throng of devoted Swifties as her guide, she exposes three sneaky language tactics that cults use to influence us (for better or for worse&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ted.com\/amandamontell\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the age of social media and wellness trends, the comments section is as good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell.jpg",1050,591,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell.jpg",1050,591,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell.jpg",1050,591,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224839-the-sneaky-language-tricks-cults-use-to-influence-you-amanda-montell-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}