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In 1954 a group of undercover psychologists joined a doomsday UFO cult who believed the world was about to be destroyed and the true believers whisked away in a flying saucer. What would happen to the believers' faiths when the prophesised apocalypse didn't happen, the psychologists wondered? The results reveal an important truth about human nature...
By weirdcalderdaleIn 1954 a group of undercover psychologists joined a doomsday UFO cult who believed the world was about to be destroyed and the true believers whisked away in a flying saucer. What would happen to the believers' faiths when the prophesised apocalypse didn't happen, the psychologists wondered? The results reveal an important truth about human nature...