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Title: How would a personality psychologist most likely explain the mass suicide in Jonestown?
Post by: Conceptual on Jan 12, 2017
How would a personality psychologist most likely explain the mass suicide in Jonestown?
   a.   An increasingly complex and mobile society creates confusion and the need to belong to a group at any cost.
   b.   People who have traits of being unstable are more likely to join cults.
   c.   She wouldn’t try to explain it; personality psychologists are not interested in suicide.
   d.   The leader’s control over his followers increased slowly over time.


Title: Re: How would a personality psychologist most likely explain the mass suicide in Jonestown?
Post by: sleeper on Jan 12, 2017
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