Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

Timothy Jenkins

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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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 psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior.

ISBN-13
9781137364456
ISBN-10
1137364459
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
Publication date
2013-06-21
Pages
100
Dimensions
207x352x13
Weight
282