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When Prophecy Fails
Leon Festinger and Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter
In 1954 Leon Festinger, a brilliant young experimental social psychologist in the process of inventing a new theory of human behavior - the theory of cognitive dissonance - and two of his colleagues, Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter, infiltrated a...