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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance (Hardcover, New)
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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance (Hardcover, New)
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Do prophecies fail? A small group led by spirit mediums,
infiltrated by social scientists, and reported on at intervals by
the press: Together, these different parties create a sequence of
mutual misunderstandings that leads both to a series of missed
appointments with flying saucers from distant planets and to
success in averting a global catastrophe.This volume proposes a
re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on cognitive
dissonance, offering a different account of the motivations and
meanings of a group expecting the arrival of spacemen from another
planet and anticipating the End of the World, and incorporating the
social scientists who studied them into the picture.The author
explores the relations between anthropology and psychology and
between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human
behaviour, contributing to ideas about the role of science in
contemporary society and to the sociology of secrecy..
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