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When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World | Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter

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2009 reprint of 1956 First edition. When Prophecy Fails [1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand. In effect, it is a social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world, and the adjustments made when the prediction failed to materialize. "The authors have done something as laudable as it is unusual for social psychologists. They espied a fleeting social movement important to a line of research they were interested in and took after it. They recruited a team of observers, joined the movement, and watched it from within under great difficulties until its crisis came and went. Their report is of interest as much for the method as for the substance."-Everett C. Hughes, The American Journal of Sociology.

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When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World | Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter

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This book is... Tough. The premise is interesting, looking at the goings on of a small society of doomsday-ers named The Seekers in the 1950s and their continuous struggle to believe their predictions as each message to them from their aliens turned out to be false (as in, nothing happened.)

This is not a Heaven's Gate style cult. No one gets hurt, just their pride and reputation. It's dry, but the desire to see the end keeps you going.

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When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World | Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schachter

The initial beginning of this book is so interesting, and the description of the beginning of The Seekers is engaging. But Gods above, I'm finding the path to the end an absolute slog. I almost fall asleep reading it, which isn't great! I do not like bailing on books, so I'm trying so hard to finish this, but my attention rope is fraying.