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.
| ISBN: | 9781349473281 |
| Publication date: | 21st June 2013 |
| Author: | Timothy Jenkins |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Pivot an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 100 pages |
| Genres: |
Social groups: religious groups and communities Social and cultural anthropology Crime and criminology Anthropology Religion and beliefs Sociology and anthropology |