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When prophecy fails 1956

By Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter

  • 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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