PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Judson Mills, Somalia Affair, Cognitive Dissonance
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Chapter 6: attitude and attitude change: influencing thoughts, feelings and. The nature and origin of attitudes i. e. march 1997, quebec police were stunned when they learned that 5 people committed suicide in st. The people died were members of the solar temple cult. Cult was led by luc jouret and joseph di mambro. Those who joined the solar temple were wealthy professionals, including the mayor of richelieu, quebec and his wife, people in upper management positions at hydro. Jouret was charismatic, spiritual, with formidable powers of persuasion. A cult member was interviewed and reported; he asked all of us to empty our bank accounts. she and her husband sold their property in switzerland and handed ,000 to jouret. Most disturbing of all, jouret convinced cult members that the world was to b destroyed by fire and the only salvation was to take a death voyage by ritualized suicide to the star sirius.