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

Timothy Jenkins

Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
21 June 2013
Pages
100
ISBN
9781137364456

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

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.

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