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

by Timothy Jenkins

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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.
  • ISBN13 9781349473281
  • Publish Date 21 June 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
  • Imprint Palgrave Pivot
  • Edition 1st ed. 2013
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 100
  • Language English