When Prophecy Fails | Free Book
A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the
Destruction of the World
The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work,
one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in
social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We
had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the
adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the
social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of
it, the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was
centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager
to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under
natural conditions. That we were able to do this study was in great
measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for
Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This
study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were
all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help
we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of
the authors, a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field
situation possible.
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