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When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World - Couverture rigide

Festinger, Leon; Riecken, Henry; Schachter, Stanley

 
9781684226207: When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World
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ISBN 10 : 1684226201 ISBN 13 : 9781684226207
Editeur : Martino Fine Books, 2021

Synopsis

2021 Hardcover Reprint of the 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.

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Éditeur
Martino Fine Books
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1684226201
ISBN 13 
9781684226207
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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