Martino Fine Books
When Prophecy Fails
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9781578988525
ISBN13:
9781578988525
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$10.52
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.
| Author: Leon Festinger |
| Publisher: Martino Fine Books |
| Publication Date: November 12, 2009 |
| Number of Pages: 260 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1578988527 |
| ISBN-13: 9781578988525 |
When Prophecy Fails
$10.52
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.
| Author: Leon Festinger |
| Publisher: Martino Fine Books |
| Publication Date: November 12, 2009 |
| Number of Pages: 260 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1578988527 |
| ISBN-13: 9781578988525 |
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