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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: When prophecy fails
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Festinger, Leon
    name part: 1919-1989
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: American Psychological Association
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 1956
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 256 pages)
  abstract: We have all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief. We are familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed through the most devastating attacks. But man's resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief. Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view. How and why does such a response to contradictory evidence come about? This is the question on which this book focuses. We hope that, by the end of the volume, we will have provided an adequate answer to the question, an answer documented by data. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
  note: by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken and Stanley Schachter.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection.
  note: Bibliographical references included in "Notes to chapter 1" (pages 253-254).
  subject:
    topic: Prophecies (Occultism)
  subject:
    topic: Prophecies (Occultism)
  subject:
    topic: Voorspellingen
  subject:
    topic: Occultisme
  subject:
    topic: Occultism
  classification: BF1809 .F4
  classification: 133.3
  classification: 11.06
  related item:
    title info:
      title: When prophecy fails (print)
    identifier: (DLC) 56011611
    identifier: (OCoLC)217969
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YUM
    record creation date: 730821
    record change date: 20260612153211.4
    record identifier: in00003517567
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng