An edition of When prophecy fails: a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world (1956)

When prophecy fails

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An edition of When prophecy fails: a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world (1956)

When prophecy fails

a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world

by , , and

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Social scientists test their hypotheses about prophetic-disconfirmation behavior by observing a group prophesying the end of the world.

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Harper & Row
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English

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Subjects
disconfirmation behavior, news media, Prophecies, proselyting, Prophecies (occultism), End of the world, social relations
Times
late 1940s to early 1950s

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When prophecy fails: a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world
1964, Harper & Row
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1964, Harper & Row
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When prophecy fails
1956, University of Minnesota Press
in English
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Harper torchbooks

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D8.

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OL22436716M
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0061311324
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