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

by TimothyJenkins (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $92.46

  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.