When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World by Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter, Leon Festinger

When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World

Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter, Leon Festinger

260 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

nonfiction psychology religion sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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2009 reprint of 1956 First edition. When Prophecy Fails 1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world w...

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