• When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology...
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  • Falsifiability – Property of a statement that can be logically contradicted When Prophecy Fails – 1956 book of social psychology List of dates predicted for apocalyptic...
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  • Festinger published a study of a group with cataclysmic predictions: When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted...
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  • beliefs leads to increased conviction in such beliefs in the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails. The group studied a small apocalyptic cult led by Dorothy Martin...
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  • Disconfirmed expectancy was famously illustrated in the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. The book...
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  • Retrieved 2019-01-19. Tumminia, Diana G. (2005). "How Prophecy Never Fails". When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Group. Oxford...
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    Wissenschaflliche Buchgesellschaft. Dawson, Lorne L. (October 1999). "When Prophecy Fails and Faith Persists: A Theoretical Overview". Nova Religio: The Journal...
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    Wissenschaflliche Buchgesellschaft. Dawson, Lorne L. (October 1999). "When Prophecy Fails and Faith Persists: A Theoretical Overview" (PDF). Nova Religio:...
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  • prophet (alias Marian Keech) who was one of the subjects of the book When Prophecy Fails Dorothy Martin, adopted name of aviator Dot Lemon (1907–1986) Dorothy...
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    Francisco: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-073817-4. Festinger, Leon (1956). When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of A Modern Group that Predicted...
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  • the prediction failed, most believers still clung to their faith. Their book describing this research is aptly named When Prophecy Fails. The term belief...
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  • their behavior after the predicted apocalypse fails to happen. Using the 2012 Mayan apocalypse prophecy as an example, and citing several other similar...
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    Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter and published in their book When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted...
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    Ellen G. White". www.truthorfables.com. Retrieved June 14, 2023. When Prophecy Fails, Festinger, Riecken and Schaeter, p. 7. Soothsayers Of The Second...
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  • religious movements Science fiction When Prophecy Fails (Partridge 2003, p. 274) Grünschloß, Andreas (December 1998). "«When we enter into my Father's spacecraft»...
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    ISSN 1476-6728. S2CID 238412522. Dawson, Lorne L. (October 1999). "When Prophecy Fails and Faith Persists: A Theoretical Overview" (PDF). Nova Religio:...
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  • H.M. Lev Zasetsky (A.R. Luria) Solomon Shereshevsky (A.R. Luria) When Prophecy Fails published in 1956, this study was done on a group that believed aliens...
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  • members changed. They published their results in a 1956 book called When Prophecy Fails. David Rosenhan in 1973 published a journal that involved research...
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  • prior to and after a failed prophecy from their charismatic leader. Their work was later published in the book When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological...
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    8 prophecy during the Second Great Awakening led him to conclude that Daniel's "cleansing of the sanctuary" was cleansing the world from sin when Christ...
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    stake between 1555 and 1558 after the restoration of papal jurisdiction. When Elizabeth I came to the throne, the concept of heresy was retained in theory...
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  • Tradition: Responding to Late Modernity. Walliss, John (September 1999). "When Prophecy Fails: The Brahma Kumaris and the Pursuit of the Millennium(s)". British...
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  • people's attitudes become polarized. The doomsday cult described in When Prophecy Fails The MMR vaccine controversy and Andrew Wakefield Conflict escalation...
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  • A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's belief or expectation that the prediction would come...
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  • Festinger, Leon; Riecken, Henry W.; Schachter, Stanley (1990). When prophecy fails: a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted...
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  • American Cult Scare Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism Twisted Scriptures When Prophecy Fails The Wrong Way Home Zealot: A Book About Cults...
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  • Groups [1950], Theory and Experiment in Social Communication [1950], When Prophecy Fails [1956] – written with Festinger and Henry Riecken, describing what...
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