Of flying saucers and social scientists: a re-reading of when prophecy fails and of cognitive dissonance
Auteur :
Jenkins, Timothy
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781137364456
Date de publication :
21 juin 2013
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior.