Psychology
fromThe New Yorker
2 hours agoIs Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?
A foundational 1956 study of cognitive dissonance involving a U.F.O. doomsday cult has been largely debunked by new research.
She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen the doomsday cult in which she's grown up after the local Sheriff's office raided their compound, discovering a dead body and a landing strip with a sign welcoming extraterrestrial visitors. Rumors had long circulated among residents of Alamogordo, New Mexico, about what was going on at the farm in nearby La Luz, but nothing like this had ever happened.