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Tirant22 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi led large groups of people in protests against injustice. According to information in your text about the process of deindividuation, why is it that these groups did not behave violently?

a. The group norm was nonviolence.
b. They were led by transactional leaders.
c. There was very little deindividuation among group members.
d. They were too afraid to behave violently.

Question 2

Is it true that deindividuation always leads people to act negatively or violently?

a. Yes, look at evidence of massacres and lynch mobs.
b. No, people tend to follow the group norm, which is not always destructive.
c. Yes, because people are inherently aggressive, as proven by Milgram's studies.
d. No, but only for people who have resistant personalities.