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Sto caricando le informazioni... When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (1956)di Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Really enjoyed the book, been hearing a lot about this study for years. This book is really detailed and I enjoyed reading it. ( ) I read this as research for my next novel in which I'm planning to write about an end of the world cult. Strangely I'd written an essay on Festinger for my very first assignment in my Open University degree some time in about 1994. Years later when a friend told me about cognitive dissonance theory I didn't make the connection. Even stranger, it was on December 21st 2012, when everyone was talking about the Mayan calendar so called end of the world ( http://www.aquarius-atlanta.com/articles/?issue=06-2012&i=1460&article=2... ), that I was looking up end of the world cults and discovered this book. The ultimate irony is that the people Festinger was writing about were predicting the end of the world on December 21st 1954 exactly 59 years to the day that the Mayan calendar apparently predicted the end of the world. Of course that's a coincidence but let's not get into all that coincidence nonsense right now. So the book was a fascinating read. There was a vast amount of information on the cult itself and the way the people behaved. I'm going to have to develop my ideas quite a bit as the material is so good that, had I not read this my version of the cult would have been very flat indeed. From an academic point of view I'm not so sure. I saw another book listed at the same time as this that appeared to claim that Festinger's case was in some way flawed. As a psychology graduate half a century later I would imagine that the methodology would be questioned by everybody from ethics committees to general academics who would suggest that you simply cannot collect data in this way without contamination. On the whole it was a fascinating read, a real eye opener and well worth the effort and I really hope my version of these totally bonkers people will be even half as entertaining. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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 theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of it, the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under natural conditions. That we were able to do this study was in great measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of the authors, a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field situation possible. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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