Martin Luther King Jr

question 153

Multiple Choice

Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi led large groups of people in protests against injustice. According to information in your text about the process of deindividuation, why is it that these groups did not behave violently?

• A) The group norm was nonviolence.
• B) They were led by transactional leaders.
• C) There was very little deindividuation among group members.
• D) They were too afraid to behave violently.

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