When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse. The authors took a particular interest in the members' coping mechanisms after the event did not occur, focusing on the cognitive dissonance between the members' beliefs and actual events, and the psychological consequences of these disconfirmed expectations. One of the first published cases of dissonance was reported in this book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
The Seekers? Harry Potter Movies leaving clues too lol
So weird how all these things that are jumping out at me recently from over the years that fuck with my head, were all introduced to me by my mother. wtfingf