When Prophecy Fails: An Account of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World by Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter, Leon Festinger

When Prophecy Fails: An Account of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World

Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter, Leon Festinger

256 pages first pub 1956 (view 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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