https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/festinger-leon/15016/ https://wist.info/festinger-leon/15016/#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:19:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=15016 A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

Leon Festinger (1919–1989) American social psychologist
When Prophecy Fails (1956) [with H Riecken, S. Schachter]

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