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When Prophecy Fails (Paperback): Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter When Prophecy Fails (Paperback)
Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter
R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of it, the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under natural conditions. That we were able to do this study was in great measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of the authors, a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field situation possible.

When Prophecy Fails - A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World... When Prophecy Fails - A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (Hardcover)
Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter
R646 Discovery Miles 6 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
When Prophecy Fails (Hardcover): Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter When Prophecy Fails (Hardcover)
Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2012 reprint of 1956 First edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. When Prophecy Fails 1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it is a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world, and the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize. "The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement, and watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."-Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology.

When Prophecy Fails (Paperback): Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter When Prophecy Fails (Paperback)
Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter
R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2012 reprint of 1956 First edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. When Prophecy Fails 1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it is a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world, and the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize. "The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement, and watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."-Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology.

When Prophecy Fails (Paperback): Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter When Prophecy Fails (Paperback)
Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter
R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2012 reprint of 1956 First edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. When Prophecy Fails 1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it is a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world, and the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize. "The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement, and watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."-Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology.

When Prophecy Fails (Paperback): Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter When Prophecy Fails (Paperback)
Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2011 reprint of 1956 First edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. When Prophecy Fails [1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it is a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world, and the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize. "The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement, and watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."-Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology.

When Prophecy Fails - A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World... When Prophecy Fails - A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (Paperback)
Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter
R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2009 reprint of 1956 First edition. When Prophecy Fails [1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it is a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world, and the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize. "The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement, and watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."-Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology.

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