Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists : A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance, Hardcover by Jenkins, Timothy, ISBN 1137364459, ISBN-13 9781137364456, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

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.