Nov 2, 2021
7 min read
Cognitive Dissonance and Narcissistic Abuse
Breaking through the fog of confusion
When American social psychologist Leon Festinger (1956) read about a cult’s fixation with the end of the world due to an apocalyptic flood predicted by extraterrestrials, he embarked on an empirical study to explore the believers' reactions to the inevitability of having their prophecy discredited.
