So, turns out the seminal psychological treatise “When Prophecy Fails” was a lie. When prophecy failed, the cult members did not double down, and the cult quickly collapsed. Which means decades of sociological thinking are built on a falsehood.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhbs.70043
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