Dorothy Martin, the Leader of a UFO Cult, Made a Prophecy

Multiple Choice

Dorothy Martin, the leader of a UFO cult, made a prophecy about a destructive flood on Earth. After the prophecy failed to materialize, the members of the UFO cult began to seek new members as a way to:

A) reduce the group's cognitive dissonance, because its ideas must be true if other people believed them.
B) prevent the members from splintering into smaller groups, which would effectively end the group's beliefs.
C) introduce new ideas into the group that would be more acceptable to the members than were the original ideas.
D) reduce infighting and group tensions surrounding the failed prophecies.