An Entity of Type: book, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

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 by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse. The authors took a particular interest in the members' coping mechanisms after the event did not occur, focusing on the cognitive dissonance between the members' beliefs and actual events, and the psychological consequences of these disconfirmed expectations. One of the first published cases of dissonance was reported in this book.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • L'Échec d'une prophétie (titre original : When Prophecy Fails) est un essai américain considéré comme un classique de la psychologie sociale publié en 1956. Les trois auteurs, spécialistes en psychologie, Leon Festinger, (en) et Stanley Schachter, ont cherché à analyser comment les individus réagissaient à la suite de la réfutation d'une croyance à laquelle ils adhéraient fortement. Pour cela, ils ont suivi le parcours d'un groupe d'ufologistes persuadés de l'imminence de la fin du monde. (fr)
  • 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 by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse. The authors took a particular interest in the members' coping mechanisms after the event did not occur, focusing on the cognitive dissonance between the members' beliefs and actual events, and the psychological consequences of these disconfirmed expectations. One of the first published cases of dissonance was reported in this book. (en)
dbo:author
dbo:isbn
  • 0-06-131132-4
dbo:literaryGenre
dbo:nonFictionSubject
dbo:numberOfPages
  • 253 (xsd:positiveInteger)
dbo:oclc
  • 217969
dbo:publicationDate
  • 1956-01-01 (xsd:date)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 9199046 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 20443 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1118998993 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:author
dbp:caption
  • Book cover, 1964 edition. (en)
dbp:country
  • United States (en)
dbp:genre
dbp:isbn
  • 0 (xsd:integer)
dbp:language
  • English (en)
dbp:mediaType
  • Hardcover (en)
dbp:name
  • When Prophecy Fails (en)
dbp:oclc
  • 217969 (xsd:integer)
dbp:pages
  • 253 (xsd:integer)
dbp:pubDate
  • 1956-01-01 (xsd:date)
dbp:publisher
  • Harper-Torchbooks (en)
dbp:subject
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dc:publisher
  • Harper-Torchbooks
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • L'Échec d'une prophétie (titre original : When Prophecy Fails) est un essai américain considéré comme un classique de la psychologie sociale publié en 1956. Les trois auteurs, spécialistes en psychologie, Leon Festinger, (en) et Stanley Schachter, ont cherché à analyser comment les individus réagissaient à la suite de la réfutation d'une croyance à laquelle ils adhéraient fortement. Pour cela, ils ont suivi le parcours d'un groupe d'ufologistes persuadés de l'imminence de la fin du monde. (fr)
  • 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 by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse. The authors took a particular interest in the members' coping mechanisms after the event did not occur, focusing on the cognitive dissonance between the members' beliefs and actual events, and the psychological consequences of these disconfirmed expectations. One of the first published cases of dissonance was reported in this book. (en)
rdfs:label
  • L'Échec d'une prophétie (fr)
  • When Prophecy Fails (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • When Prophecy Fails (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is rdfs:seeAlso of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License