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Leon Festinger
Books by Leon Festinger
When Prophecy Fails
By Leon Festinger and Stanley Schachter
The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our the...