Last night the news reported a sad case of a young man who committed suicide by jumping from a building while a crowd chanted "Jump, jump." The television station wants a social psychologist to comment on this tragedy
The psychologist's comments will most likely point to
a) support for Freud's notion of thanatos.
b) a tendency for suicides to occur in front of large crowds.
c) the tendency for people who cannot be identified to engage in negative behavior because of decreased responsibility.
d) the ease with which a large crowd was able to empathize with the plight of a man who was at the depths of depression.
C
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