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It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie?
Mother Jones Nov 25, 2025

It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie?

On the night before Christmas in 1954, a Chicago housewife named Dorothy Martin begged her followers to step outside, sing together, and wait, at last, for the aliens.  Things hadn’t been going well for Martin, the leader of a small UFO-based religious movement usually known as the Seekers. She had previously told her followers that, […]