In theory yes, but in practice you just get a demonstration of Festinger’s observations of cogntiive dissonance. When the the flood doesn’t arrive at midnight,

In theory yes, but in practice you just get a demonstration of Festinger’s observations of cogntiive dissonance. When the the flood doesn’t arrive at midnight, you’d expect people to walk out, but most just decide they for the timing wrong and wait for the next one. https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html