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

Festinger, Leon

ISBN 10: 1578988527 / ISBN 13: 9781578988525

Published by Martino Publishing, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World
• Publisher: Martino Publishing
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578988527
• ISBN 13: 9781578988525
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 390 grams

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Synopsis

2009 reprint of 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.

About the Author

ELLIOT ARONSON is one of the most distinguished social psychologists in the world. His books include The Social Animal and The Jigsaw Classroom. Chosen by his peers as one of the 100 most influential psychologists of the twentieth century, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the only psychologist to have won all three of the American Psychological Association s top awards for writing, teaching, and research. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.