| When Prophecy Fails Contributor(s): Festinger, Leon (Author), Riecken, Henry (Author), Schachter, Stanley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1891396986 ISBN-13: 9781891396984 Publisher: Martino Fine Books OUR PRICE: $8.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology - Body, Mind & Spirit | Prophecy - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 302 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - New Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 2011 reprint of 1956 First edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. When Prophecy Fails 1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it is a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world, and the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize. "The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement, and watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."-Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology. |