What Do the Following Situations Share in Common: a Million

question 34

Multiple Choice

What do the following situations share in common: a million listeners of Orson Welles' broadcast of War of the Worlds become panic-stricken,believing it is a real event; a case of mass psychogenic illness occurs in Tennessee; people in the Middle Ages became "infected" with dancing manias.All are examples of

• A)cognitive dissonance.
• B)obedience to authority.
• C)normative social influence.
• D)informational social influence.

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