Shame as a social control system Shame is not only a private feeling — it is the regulatory mechanism groups use to keep members inside the line of acceptable behaviour.
Ideal victim schema The cultural template that decides who is granted full victim status — and who is read as suspicious, complicit or unreliable.
Coercive control A pattern that narrows another person's freedom through monitoring, isolation and micro-rules — not a single incident, but a regime.
Emotional contagion The largely unconscious spread of affect from one person to others through mimicry — a core mechanism behind group mood and team dysfunction.
Presence-based intervention Surfacing what a group is already doing by working inside it as a perceptive observer — not by training, advising or restructuring it from the outside.