When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Ellis Freeman, MuseumAudiobooks.com
English | May 07, 2020 | ISBN: B0876GZZ6X | 9 hours and 39 minutes | M4B | 526 Mb
English | May 07, 2020 | ISBN: B0876GZZ6X | 9 hours and 39 minutes | M4B | 526 Mb
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a landmark work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter which was published in 1956.
The book examines the case of a UFO cult in Chicago called the Seekers, their expectation of an imminent apocalypse, and their coping mechanisms after the event did not occur. The cult had taken strong actions to demonstrate their commitment to the belief, quitting their jobs, leaving their spouses, and giving away their possessions in eager anticipation of a flying saucer coming to fetch them.
Festinger built his theory of cognitive dissonance on his observations of the psychological consequences of disconfirmed expectations experienced by cult members.
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