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Of Flying Saucers And Social Scientists: A Re-reading Of When Prophecy Fails And Of Cognitive Dissonance - ENG

A Re-reading Of When Prophecy Fails And Of Cognitive Dissonance

Timothy Jenkins

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ISBN:	9781137357601
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Ciencias sociales
Subtema:	Sociología de la Religión
Año de publicación:	2013-06-20

What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins re-reading of Leon Festingers classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior.

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