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Pages: 256
Pages: 256
"The behaviour of a small group of people who believe that they have been forewarned of the impending end of the world would be dismissed by many social scienti
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Pages: 215
Pages: 215
The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements tha
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Authors who, from today's perspective and in the face of current research, were far ahead of their time were often misunderstood or simply ignored by their cont
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In 1954, just as the “Flying Saucer Contactee” movement was taking off in America, a housewife named Dorothy Martin (here renamed “Mrs. Keech”) began re
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Pages: 104
Pages: 104
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Le
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Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Of the approximately fifty percent of Americans who believe in UFOs, a fraction are devotees of one of the numerous UFO-based new religious movements. The Unari
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Pages: 388
Pages: 388
The theme of this volume is the nature and perception of time in millennial movements. The authors adopt a number of disciplinary approaches to the topic, analy
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Pages: 179
Pages: 179
When Prophecy Fails [1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience
Language: en
Pages: 204
Pages: 204
Occasioned by reflections on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Festinger et al.'s When Prophecy Fails, this book examines social scientific prophecy re
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Pages: 100
Pages: 100
What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by study