After the Mass Suicides Related to the Cults at Jonestown

question 54

Multiple Choice

After the mass suicides related to the cults at Jonestown, people tended to blame the victims and accuse them of being psychologically unstable or deranged.Social psychologists are more likely to explain these mass suicides as being due to

• A) individual differences, such as antisocial personality.
• B) mental illness in most of the cult members.
• C) the social influence of cult leaders.
• D) the imagined presence of an all-powerful deity.

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