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Psychology of religion

Festinger and colleagues' account of a group whose predicted cataclysm did not occur and whose members then increased efforts to win converts to reduce dissonance.

In psychology of religion, prophecy failure refers to Festinger and colleagues' account of a group whose predicted cataclysm did not occur and whose members then increased efforts to win converts to reduce dissonance. This meaning comes from Festinger (1956) in When prophecy fails.[1]

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References

Festinger, L., Riecken, H. W., & Schachter, S. (1956). When prophecy fails. Martino Pub. ISBN 9781329896512

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