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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.

Title
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.
Author
Festinger, Leon, 1919-1989
Publication
New York : Harper & Row, [1964, c1956]

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Additional Authors
  • Riecken, Henry W.
  • Schachter, Stanley, 1922-1997
Description
253 p.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Harper torchbooks ; TB1132
Uniform Title
Human Relations Collection.
Subject
  • Festinger, Leon, 1919-1989
  • Prophecies (Occultism)
Genre/Form
  • Prophecies
  • Prophéties.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical references included in "Notes to chapter 1" (p. 250-251)
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Unfulfilled prophecies and disappointed messiahs.--Teaching and prophecies from outer space.--Spreading the word on earth.--The long wait for orders.--Four days of very imminent salvation.--An unfulfilled prophecy and an elated prophet.--Reactions to disconfirmation.--Alone and dry.--Epilogue.--Methodological appendix.--Notes to chapter 1.--Index.
OCLC
  • 280034
  • SCSB-11936386
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library