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FEATURE Lessons from Jonestown The mass suicide of Peoples Temple followers 25 years ago teaches psychologists what happens when social psychology is placed in the wrong hands. By MELISSA DITTMANN Twenty-five years later, social psychologists continue to examine how Jones came to command such enormous influence over his followers thoughts and actions. Jonestown, they say, offers important lessons for psychology, such as the power of situational and social influences and the consequences of a leader using such influences to destructively manipulate others behavior. Self-incrimination. Jones instructed followers to give him written statements about their fears and mistakes and then, if they disobeyed him, he used that information to humiliate them or subject them to their worst fears during public meetings. In 1984, the main characters resistance is broken when he is subjected to his worst fear of being covered in rats. apa.org/monitor/nov03/jonestown.aspx
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