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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists

A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

Jenkins, Timothy

Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists

Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists

A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists

 

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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Beschrijving Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists

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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