After the Mass Suicide Related to the Cult at Jonestown

Multiple Choice

After the mass suicide related to the cult 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