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When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World
Contributor(s): Festinger, Leon (Author), Riecken, Henry (Author), Schachter, Stanley (Author)
ISBN: 1578988527     ISBN-13: 9781578988525
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
OUR PRICE:   $7.36  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Psychology | Social Psychology
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Prophecy
Dewey: 302
LCCN: 2009037691
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 260 pages
Themes:
- Topical - New Age
 
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Publisher Description:
2009 reprint of 1956 First edition. 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.