The Psychology Behind The Jonestown Massacre Finally Explained

On November 18, 1978, more than 900 men, women, and children died by suicide and murder in the Jonestown settlement of Guyana at the behest of cult leader Jim Jones. Jones had been a religious leader for years before he founded the Peoples Temple religious sect, the organization that eventually led to the horrific Jonestown massacre. For decades since the incident, psychologists have wondered how anyone could have convinced so many people to take their own lives.. or even to uproot their entire lives to another country on the whims of a religious leader in the first place. Now, we may finally have an answer. This is the psychology behind the Jonestown massacre finally explained.

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