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Making Sense of the Nonsensical: An Analysis of Jonestown The events that occurred at Jonestown has raised the question gHow could such a thing happen?h(Osherow p.1) more specifically why did people do what they did? And what were they thinking?. To try to answer these questions we need to look at it from a social psychological point of view. Some people look at the events as the gproduct of obedience, of people complying with the orders of a leader and reacting to the threat of force.h (Osherow p.3). The leader, Jim Jones made use of harsh punishments which made the option of leaving defecting or rebelling unthinkable. Jim Jones demanded complete dedication from his followers and took steps to completely discourage all resistance and rebellion within the group. As shown from the Milgram situation (1965) gpresence of a gdisobedienth partner greatly reduced the extent to which most subjects obey instructionsh. Also another study done by Asch in 1955, showed that subjects were less likely to agree if there was another person present who also disagreed.
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