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, Stanley Schachter
disconfirmation behaviornews mediaPropheciesproselytingProphecies (occultism)End of the worldsocial relationsProphéties
Social scientists test their hypotheses about prophetic-disconfirmation behavior by observing a group prophesying the end of the world.
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