Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) was an American social psychologist who originated the theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison...
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Destruction of the World (1956) and A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency...
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Social comparison theory (section Leon Festinger)
Social comparison theory, initially proposed by social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1954, centers on the belief that individuals drive to gain accurate...
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Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing...
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of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith. In 1958, Leon Festinger published a study of a group with cataclysmic predictions: When Prophecy...
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Festinger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Richard Festinger (born 1948), American composer Leon Festinger (1919–1989), American...
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Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, in which Laughead was given the pseudonym Dr. Armstrong and Martin the name Marian Keech. Festinger infiltrated the Seekers...
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altering an individual's attitude through persuasion and authority. Leon Festinger and James M. Carlsmith (1959) conducted an experiment entitled "Cognitive...
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close to each other will be more likely to develop a relationship. Leon Festinger also illustrates the proximity principle and propinquity (the state...
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scholars. Among the earliest was the 1956 study, When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, which analyzed the phenomenon...
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