

- disconfirmation behavior, news media, Prophecies, proselyting
Social scientists test their hypotheses about prophetic-disconfirmation behavior by observing a group prophesying the end of the world.
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Cool, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Martino Pub., Harper-Torchbooks, University of Minnesota Press
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781329896512
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First sentence
“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change.”
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