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Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance

af Timothy Jenkins

Bog, Hardback, Engelsk, 2013

What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's 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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  • SprogEngelsk
  • IndbindingHardback
  • ISBN9781137364456
  • Udgivet21/06/2013
  • Udgivet afPalgrave MacMillan
  • Længde100 sider
  • ForfatterTimothy Jenkins
  • GenreHistorie og samfund, Religion