Leon Festinger

Books by Leon Festinger

When Prophecy Fails

A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

By Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter
The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theo...
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