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When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World
by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter. 251 pgs.

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When Prophecy Fails

Researches in the Social, Cultural and Behavioral Sciences

When Prophecy Fails

Foreword

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Chapter I Unfulfilled Prophecies and Disappointed Messiahs

Chapter II Teachings and Prophecies from Outer Space

Chapter III Spreading the Word on Earth

Chapter IV the Long Wait for Orders

Chapter V Four Days of Very Imminent Salvation

Chapter VI an Unfulfilled Prophecy and an Elated Prophet

Chapter VII Reactions to Disconfirmation

Chapter VIII Alone and Dry

Epilogue

Methodological Appendix

Notes to Chapter 1

Index
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The Human Legacy
by Leon Festinger. 212 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

PART ONE THE NARROW PATH OF EVOLUTION

Chapter One the Earliest Humans

Chapter Two from Tool Use to Technology

Chapter Three Our Immediate Predecessors

Chapter Four the Transition to Modern Man

PART TWO THE MARCH TO "CIVILIZATION"

Chapter Five Toward Sedentary Living

Chapter Six the Size of Sedentary Groups

Chapter Seven Toward Food Production

Chapter Eight the Consequences of Food Production

Chapter Nine Technology, Trade, and Social Organization

Chapter Ten Technology and Religion

CHAPTER ELEVEN Fortifications and Wars

Chapter Twelve Organized Societies and Human Slavery

Chapter Thirteen Reflections on the Present

References

INDEX
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Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Vol. III (Chap. 20 "Leon Festinger: Beyond the Obvious")
by Gregory A. Kimble, Michael C. Wertheimer. 368 pgs.

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Preface

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Portraits of the Authors and Editors

Chapter 1 Laurens Perseus Hickok: Philosopher, Theologian, and Psychologist

Chapter 2 Charles Darwin: Father of Evolutionary Psychology

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Chapter 3 Leipzig, Wilhelm Wundt, and Psychology's Gilded Age

Chapter 4 Hermann Ebbinghaus: on the Road to Progress or Down the Garden Path?

Introduction: Chairperson's Opening Remarks

Conclusion: Chairperson's Closing Remarks

Chapter 5 Alfred Binet, General Psychologist

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Chapter 6 L. L. Thurstone's Vision of Psychology as a Quantitative Rational Science1

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Chapter 7 Kurt Lewin: His Psychology and a Daughter's Recollections

Chapter 8 Floyd Henry Allport: Founder of Social Psychology as a Behavioral Science

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Chapter 9 the Legacy of Jean Piaget

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Chapter 10 Karl Duncker: Productive Problems with Beautiful Solutions

Acknowledgments

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Chapter 11 Milton Erickson: Scientist, Hypnotist, Healer

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Chapter 12 Zing-Yang Kuo: Radical Scientific Philosopher and Innovative Experimentalist

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Chapter 13 Myrtle Mcgraw: Pioneer in Neurobehavioral Development

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Chapter 14 Henry W. Nissen: Quiet Comparative Psychologist

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Chapter 15 Carl Rogers and the Culture of Psychotherapy

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Chapter 16 Burrhus Frederick Skinner: the Contingencies of a Life1

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Chapter 17 Kenneth W. Spence: Theorist with an Empiricist Conscience

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Chapter 18 David Krech: Scientist and Social Activist

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Chapter 19 Benton J. Underwood: a Tribute of Memories

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Chapter 20 Leon Festinger: Beyond the Obvious

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Psychologists on Psychology (Chap. 5 "Leon Festinger")
by David Cohen. 362 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: David Mcclelland

2: Donald Broadbent

3: Noam Chomsky

4: H. J. Eysenck

5: Leon Festinger

6: Liam Hudson

7: Michel Jouvet

8: R.D. Laing

9: Leupold-Löwenthal

10: Neal Miller

11: Burrhus Skinner

12: Henri Tajfel

13: Niko Tinbergen

Tentative Conclusions

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Explorations in Cognitive Dissonance (Chap. 9 "Dissonance Theory and the Study of Personality")
by Jack W. Brehm, Arthur R. Cohen. 334 pgs.

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Preface

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Part Theoretical Introduction

----- 1 the Theory and the Role of Commitment

Inconsistency Between Cognitions 2

Part II Review of the Evidence

3 Positive Alternatives

Negative Alternatives 4

5 Related Theoretical Issues

6 New Evidence

7 Theoretical and Methodological Problems

Extensions of the Theory

8 Motivational Effects of Dissonance

Dissonance Theory and the Study of Personality 9

Expectations and Inequity: a Dissonance Approach 10

Speculations About Dissonance Arousal 11

Part IV Dissonance Theory and Other Theoretical and Empirical Models in Psychology

--12 Dissonance, Balance, and Incongruity

13 Dissonance and Decisional Processes

14 Dissonance, Attitude Change, and Social Influence

Part I Implications and Conclusions

15applications of Dissonance Theory to Social Problems

16 Summary and Perspective

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Subject Index
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Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance (Chap. 11 "Resistance to Extinction and Related Effects")
by Robert A. Wicklund, Jack W. Brehm. 350 pgs.

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COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR

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Foreword

A Special Dedication

Preface

1: Introduction to the Theory

2: Commitment

3: Choice

4: Foreseeability and Responsibility

5: Evidence on Fundamental Propositions

6: Energizing Effects of Cognitive Dissonance

7: Awareness of Inconsistent Cognitions

8: Regret and Other Sequential Processes

9: Modes of Response to Dissonance

10: Motivational Effects of Dissonance

11: Resistance to Extinction and Related Effects

12: Selective Exposure

13: Interpersonal Processes

14: Individual Differences

15: Related Theoretical Developments

16: Alternative Explanations of Dissonance Phenomena

17: Applications

18: Perspectives

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Author Index

Subject Index
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Dissonance and Self-Justification, in Psychological Inquiry
by George R. Goethals. 3 pgs.

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Attitudes, Behavior, and Social Context: The Role of Norms and Group Membership (Chap. 12 "Cognitive Dissonance and the Social Group")
by Deborah J. Terry, Michael A. Hogg. 352 pgs.

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Applied Social Research

Acknowledgments

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1: Social Contextual Influences on Attitude-Behavior Correspondence, Attitude Change, and Persuasion

2: The Role of Moral Norm in the Attitude-Behavior Relation

Conclusions

3: Subjective Expected Utility-Based Attitude-Behavior Models: The Utility of Self-Identity

Conclusions

4: A Theory of Attitudes, Subjective Norms, and Private Versus Collective Self-Concepts

5: Attitude-Behavior Relations: Social Identity and Group Membership

6: Pluralistic Ignorance and Inconsistency Between Private Attitudes and Public Behaviors

Conclusions

7: Where Does the Behavior Come From in Attitude-Behavior Relations?

Conclusions

8: The impact of Group Membership on Persuasion: Revisiting Who Says What to Whom With What Effect?""

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

9: Group Norms, Prototypicality, and Persuasion

10: Identity and Persuasion: An Elaboration Likelihood Approach

11: Altercasting as an influence Tactic

12: Cognitive Dissonance and the Social Group

13: Social Influence and Identity Conflict

Conclusions

14: The Perceived Impact of Persuasive Messages on Us" and "Them""

Conclusions

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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Human Motivation ("Cognitive Dissonance" begins on p. 303)
by Bernard Weiner. 486 pgs.

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Preface

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Chapter One: Introduction

Section I: Need Reduction Theories

Chapter Two: The Psychoanalytic Theory of Motivation

Chapter Three: Drive Theory

Section II: Expectancy-Value Theories

Chapter Four: Kurt Lewin's Field Theory

Chapter Five: Achievement Theory

Chapter Six: Social Learning Theory and Personal Responsibility

Section III: Mastery and Growth Theories

Chapter Seven: Attribution Theory

Chapter Eight: An Attributional Theory of Behavior

Chapter Nine: Humanistic Theory and Personal Constructs

Section IV: Conclusion

Chapter Ten: Overview and Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index
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Assumptions of Social Psychology
by Robert E. Lana. 180 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

Part I: The Philosophical Basis

Chapter 2: The Current Resolution

Chapter 3: Other Philosophical Problems

Part II: The Systems

Chapter 5: Holistic Theories

Chapter 6: Psychoanalysis and the Instinctive Basis of Social Activity

Chapter 7: The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Part III: Methodology and Prospectus

Chapter 8: Methodology

Chapter 9: Conclusions and Perspective

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Index
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The Return of the Repressed: Dissonance Theory Makes a Comeback, in Psychological Inquiry
by Elliot Aronson. 9 pgs.

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Cognitive Responses in Persuasion (Chap. 3 "Thought Disruption and Persuasion: Assessing the Validity of Attitude Change Experiments")
by Richard E. Petty, Thomas M. Ostrom, Timothy C. Brock. 476 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Contributors

I: Historical and Methodological Perspectives in the Analysis of Cognitive Responses: an Introduction

1: Historical Foundations of the Cognitive Response Approach to Attitudes and Persuasion

2: The Nature of Attitudes and Cognitive Responses and Their Relationships to Behavior

3: Thought Disruption and Persuasion: Assessing the Validity of Attitude Change Experiments

4: Psychophysiological Functioning, Cognitive Responding, and Attitudes

5: Methodological Issues in Analyzing the Cognitive Mediation of Persuasion

6: Cognitive Response Analysis: an Appraisal

II: The Role of Cognitive Responses in Attitude Change Processes

7: Effects of Source Characteristics on Cognitive Responses and Persuasion

8: Recipient Characteristics as Determinants of Responses to Persuasion

9: Attitude Polarization in Groups

10: Anticipatory Opinion Effects

11: Repetition, Cognitive Responses, and Persuasion

III: Theoretical Perspectives in the Analysis of Cognitive Responses

12: Cognitive Responses to Mass Media Advocacy

13: The Probabilogical Model of Cognitive Structure and Attitude Change

14: Balance Theory and Phenomenology

15: Acceptance, Yielding and Impact: Cognitive Processes in Persuasion

16: Integration Theory Applied to Cognitive Responses and Attitudes

17: Principles of Memory and Cognition in Attitude Formation

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Author Index
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Topics in the History of Psychology, Vol. 2 (Discusses Leon Festinger's contributions in multiple chapters)
by Gregory A. Kimble, Kurt Schlesinger. 429 pgs.

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Contents of Volume 1

Preface

1 Overview: the Chronology

2 Behavioral Genetics and The Nature-Nurture Question

3 The Development Of Psychological Testing

4 Developmental Psychology

5 Drives and Motives

6 Sleep and Dreaming

7 Psychotherapy

8 Psychopathology: I. From Ancient Times to The Eighteenth Century

9 Psychopathology: Ii. from The Eighteenth Century to Modern Times

10 Approaches to Personality Theory

11 History of Social Psychology

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Reflections on 100 Years of Experimental Social Psychology (Chap. 4 "Adventures in Experimental Social Psychology: Roots, Branches, and Sticky New Leaves")
by Aroldo Rodrigues, Robert V. Levine. 245 pgs.

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Published to mark the centenary of Tripplet's study of bicycle racers, this edited collection brings together the reflections of nine social psychologists who spoke at a conference at Yosemite National Park in 1997.

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Preface

Notes

Acknowledgments

1: A Personal Perspective on the Development of Social Psychology in the Twentieth Century

Notes

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2: Fifty Years in Social Psychology: Some Reflections on the Individual Group Problem

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3: A Social Psychologist Examines His Past and Looks to the Future

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4: Adventures in Experimental Social Psychology: Roots, Branches, and Sticky New Leaves

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5: Reflections on Interpersonal Influence and Social Power in Experimental Social Psychology

Notes

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6: Experimental Social Psychology: Behaviorism with Minds and Matters

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7: On the Changes in U.S. Social Psychology: Some Speculations

Notes

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8: Historical Sketches and Critical Commentary About Social Psychology in the Golden Age

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9: One Hundred Years of Rationality Assumptions in Social Psychology

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10: Afterword: Reflecting on Reflections

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About the Editors and Contributors

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Texts and Subtexts, in Psychological Inquiry
by Barry E. Collins. 6 pgs.

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