When Prophecy Fails

By Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Science & Math

Festinger, Riecken and Schachter's study of a 1950s UFO cult whose prophecy failed. It introduced cognitive dissonance theory.

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