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In this chapter, a re-description is offered of the various episodes explained by Festinger as ‘disconfirmation’, but which may be better accounted for as a series of encounters between incompatible frameworks of interpretation.
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This behaviour in some respects parallels that of anti-cult groups, which create and enact the kind of activities and experience (abduction, attempts at brainwashing) which they attribute to the ‘cults’ they oppose—see Beckford (1985), Shupe and Bromley (1980), La Fontaine (1998).
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Jenkins, T. (2013). A Dialogue of the Deaf. In: Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-Reading of When Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137357601_7
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