Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance
A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance| By: | Timothy Jenkins |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137364456 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137357601 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.