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According to Wikipedia, Leon Festinger was an American social psychologist who originated the theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. The rejection of the previously dominant behaviorist view of social psychology by demonstrating the inadequacy of stimulus-response conditioning accounts of human behavior is largely attributed to his theories and research. Festinger is also credited with advancing the use of laboratory experimentation in social psychology, although he simultaneously stressed the importance of studying real-life situations, a principle he practiced when personally infiltrating a doomsday cult. He is also known in social network theory for the proximity effect .

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Leon Festinger's Published Works

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Published Papers

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957) (18924)
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes (1954) (16730)
Informal social communication. (1950) (1896)
Social pressures in informal groups : a study of human factors in housing / by Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter and Kurt Back (1950) (1224)
Conflict, Decision, and Dissonance (1964) (1030)
When Prophecy Fails (1956) (991)
Level of aspiration. (1944) (756)
Social pressures in informal groups (1950) (695)
Some consequences of de-individuation in a group (1952) (567)
ON RESISTANCE TO PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATIONS. (1964) (397)
When prophecy fails: A social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world. (1964) (389)
Cognitive dissonance. (1962) (381)
BEHAVIORAL SUPPORT FOR OPINION CHANGE (1964) (310)
Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences. (1954) (271)
Book Review:A Study of Thinking. J. S. Bruner, J. J. Goodnow, G. A. Austin (1957) (235)
Contemporary approaches to cognition (1958) (233)
Interpersonal communication in small groups. (1951) (212)
Some consequences of deindividuation in a group. (1952) (198)
The Analysis of Sociograms using Matrix Algebra (1949) (168)
The Effectiveness of "Overheard" Persuasive Communications (1962) (168)
Wish, expectation, and group standards as factors influencing level of aspiration. (1942) (152)
A theoretical interpretation of shifts in level of aspiration. (1942) (140)
A Study of a Rumor: Its Origin and Spread (1948) (139)
The Influence Process in the Presence of Extreme Deviates (1952) (132)
Information about spatial location based on knowledge about efference. (1965) (131)
The significance of difference between means without reference to the frequency distribution function (1946) (131)
Efference and the conscious experience of perception (1967) (128)
Tendencies toward Group Comparability in Competitive Bargaining (1954) (128)
The effectiveness of unanticipated persuasive communications. (1961) (122)
Back to the Future: Retrospective Review of Leon Festinger's "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance"@@@A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1997) (110)
Cognitive Dissonance. (Book Reviews: Deterrents and Reinforcement. The psychology of insufficient reward) (1965) (103)
Theory and experiment in social communication. (1950) (101)
Eye movements and decrement in the Müller-Lyer illusion (1968) (99)
The psychological effects of insufficient rewards. (1961) (96)
A quantitative theory of decision (1943) (90)
The effect of attention on brightness contrast and assimilation. (1970) (88)
Studies in decision: I. Decision-time, relative frequency of judgment and subjective confidence as related to physical stimulus difference. (1943) (87)
Some observations concerning saccadic eye movements. (1973) (84)
The perception of color with achromatic stimulation. (1971) (77)
Visual perception during smooth pursuit eye movements (1976) (76)
Descriptive and Sampling Statistics. (1947) (67)
Changing attitudes through social contact (1951) (61)
An experimental investigation of the effect of unstable interpersonal relations in a group. (1954) (56)
The Human Legacy (1983) (53)
Self-Evaluation as a Function of Attraction to the Group (1954) (53)
Inferences about the efferent system based on a perceptual illusion produced by eye movements. (1974) (50)
The treatment of qualitative data by scale analysis. (1947) (48)
Impact of oculomotor retraining on the visual perception of curvature. (1977) (46)
The Role of Group Belongingness in a Voting Situation (1947) (46)
Briefer Studies and Annotations (1950) (45)
Preparatory action and belief in the probable occurrence of future events. (1961) (44)
Shifts in explicit goals in a level of aspiration experiment. (1940) (35)
Studies in decision. II. An empirical test of a quantitative theory of decision. (1943) (35)
A statistical test for means of samples from skew populations (1943) (32)
EYE MOVEMENTS AND PERCEPTION (1971) (31)
A theory of congnitive dissonance (1962) (29)
Extending psychological frontiers : selected works of Leon Festinger (1989) (27)
An exact test of significance for means of samples drawn from populations with an exponential frequency distribution (1943) (23)
Pressures Toward Uniformity of Performance in Groups (1957) (21)
Emotional disruption and industrial productivity. (1961) (20)
Development of differential appetite in the rat. (1943) (18)
Retinal image smear as a source of information about magnitude of eye movement. (1978) (15)
Interaction of perceptually monitored and unmonitored efferent commands for smooth pursuit eye movements (1978) (15)
Some attitudinal consequences of forced decisions (1959) (15)
Changing attitudes through social contact : an experimental study of a housing project (1951) (14)
Contemporary approaches to cognition : a symposium held at the University of Colorado (1968) (13)
The Gelb effect: brightness contrast plus attention. (1973) (13)
Social psychology and group processes. (1955) (7)
The accuracy of two-dimensional saccades in the absence of continuing retinal stimulation (1977) (7)
The effectiveness of "over-heard" persuasive communications. (1962) (5)
Unfulfilled prophecies and disappointed messiahs. (1956) (5)
A method of studying rumor transmission. (1950) (5)
Reflections on how to study and uderstand the human being (1994) (3)
A TEST OF DECISION TIME : RELIABILITY AND "GENERALITY (1945) (3)
Theory and experiment in social communication: (482642008-001) (1950) (3)
Contemporary Approaches to Cognition.@@@A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. (1958) (2)
Sampling and related problems in research methodlogy. (1959) (2)
Experiments in Group Belongingness (1988) (2)
Who shall survive (1954) (1)
Reactions to disconfirmation. (1956) (1)
Alone and dry. (1956) (0)
Wish, expectation and group perfomance as factors influencing level of aspiration (1940) (0)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
Eye Movement Disorders in Dyslexia. Final Report. (1972) (0)
Teachings and prophecies from outer space. (1956) (0)
Infants and Ancestors in Social Relations. (1956) (0)
The Legacy of Lewin@@@Retrospections on Social Psychology. (1982) (0)
Selective Exposure Theory (0)
Handbook of social psychology. (1955) (0)
Spreading the word on earth. (1956) (0)
A Contribution to methodology in the Social Sciences@@@Reasearch Methods in the Behavioral Sciences. (1954) (0)
Neurophysiological coding for the perception of color. (1970) (0)
Communication sociale informelle (1971) (0)
An unfulfilled prophecy and an elated prophet. (1956) (0)
The long wait for orders. (1956) (0)
Is there curvature adaptation not attributable to purely intravisual phenomena (1979) (0)
Four days of very imminent salvation. (1956) (0)
Psychology and Ockham's Razor (1966) (0)
Book reviews (1950) (0)
The Social Organization of Early Human Groups (1986) (0)

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