When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World by Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter, Leon Festinger

When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter, Leon Festinger

264 pages first pub 1956 (editions)

nonfiction psychology religion sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1954 Leon Festinger, a brilliant young experimental social psychologist in the process of outlining a new theory of human behavior - the theory of cognitive dissonance - and his colleagues infiltrated a cult who believed the end of the world wa...

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