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- Blake T. Ostler, "Spiritual Experiences as the Basis for Belief and Commitment," (2007 FAIR Conference Presentation). FAIR link
- Wendy Ulrich, "'Believest thou...?': Faith, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Psychology of Religious Experience," FAIR link
- Richard E. Turley, Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992). ISBN 0252018850.
- Ad hominem
- Appeal to ridicule
- Begging the question
- False premise
- Faulty generalization
- Judgemental language
- Negative proof
- Poisoning the well
- Red herring
- Shifting the burden of proof
- Special pleading
- Wrong direction fallacy
- George Throckmorton and Steve Mayfield, "Salamander Letters" (2006 FAIR Conference presentation) FAIR link
- Roger Keller, "The Apostasy," FAIR 2004 conference. FAIR link
Dr. Keller is a former Presbyterian minister. - Clark Goble, "Cognitive Dissonance and Confirmation Bias," Mormon Metaphysics blog post, (20 July 2007), libertypages.com. off-site
- Cognitive dissonance - multiple links off-site
- Critique of Cognitive Dissonance Theory off-site
- Dallin H. Oaks, "Recent Events Involving Church History and Forged Documents," Ensign (October 1987): 63.off-site
- Daniel C. Peterson and William J. Hamblin, "Is Spirituality All in Your Head?," MeridianMagazine.com off-site
- Michael D. Jibson, "'Imagine: Review of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris'," FARMS Review 18/1 (2006). [233–264] link
- Daniel C. Peterson, "Reflections on Secular Anti-Mormonism," FARMS Review 17/2 (2005). [423–450] link
- Richard Lloyd Anderson, "The Alvin Smith Story: Fact and Fiction," Ensign (August 1987): 58.off-site
- Utah History Encyclopedia, "Mark Hofmann" off-site
- Richard N. Williams, "The Spirit of Prophecy and the Spirit of Psychiatry: Restoration or Dissociation? (Review of The Sword of Laban: Joseph Smith Jr. and the Dissociated Mind)," FARMS Review (2000). [435–444] link
- "Believest thou?" Faith, Cognitive Dissonance, & Psychology of Religious Experience, Wendy Ulrich (Psychologist), 2005 FAIR Conference
- Part 1: Cognitive Dissonance
- Part 2: Cognitive Dissonance
- Part 3: Cognitive Dissonance
- Part 4: Cognitive Dissonance
- Part 5: Cognitive Dissonance
- Part 6: Cognitive Dissonance
- Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957). ISBN 0804701318
- Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, When Prophecy Fails: a Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World, (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1956).
- Linda Sillitoe and Allen Roberts, Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, 2nd. ed., (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989). ISBN 0941214877