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

By Timothy Jenkins

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137364459
• ISBN13: 9781137364456
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"