Thursday, April 19, 2012

Catastrophic Thinking is On the Rise

4/19/12.

Predictions of the end of the world...and the end of the world...and the end of the world - never stop.

In 1964, for example, social psychologists Leon Festinger, Henry W. Reiker, and Stanley Schacter published, "When Prophecy Fails:  A Social Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World."

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_apocalyptic-daze.html

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