Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance
What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psycholog
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137357601
10.1057/9781137357601 - Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists, Timothy Jenkins
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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists
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