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When prophecy fails

a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world

by Henry W. Riecken, Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter

1956 256 pages eng

Social scientists test their hypotheses about prophetic-disconfirmation behavior by observing a group prophesying the end of the world.

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