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   When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World » Read Now

   by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter. 251 pgs.

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   ...youth in the Urban South Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken and Stanley...Destruction of the World BY Leon Festinger Henry W. Riecken AND Stanley...the title page...
   
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   The Human Legacy » Read Now

   by Leon Festinger. 212 pgs.

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   Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Vol. III (Chap. 20 "Leon Festinger: Beyond the Obvious") » Read Now

   by Gregory A. Kimble, Michael C. Wertheimer. 368 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Freund 309 20 Leon Festinger: Beyond the Obvious Jack W...Brehm, author of the chapter on Leon Festinger, obtained his Ph.D. degree in...University of Minnesota under...
   
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   Psychologists on Psychology (Chap. 5 "Leon Festinger") » Read Now

   by David Cohen. 362 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Chomsky 72 4 H. J. Eysenck 101 5 Leon Festinger 126 6 Liam Hudson 145 7 Michel...be something else. Skinner wanted to be a writer; Festinger wanted to be a chess player;...
   
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   Explorations in Cognitive Dissonance (Chap. 9 "Dissonance Theory and the Study of Personality") » Read Now

   by Jack W. Brehm, Arthur R. Cohen. 334 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Allyn, Elliot Aronson, Dana Bramel, Timothy Brock, Leon Festinger, Harold B. Gerard, Sidney Rosen, and Philip G...great pleasure to acknowledge our indebtedness to Leon...
   
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   Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance (Chap. 11 "Resistance to Extinction and Related Effects") » Read Now

   by Robert A. Wicklund, Jack W. Brehm. 350 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...A series of volumes edited by Leon Festinger and Stanley Schachter WICKLUND...different concrete life spaces. Leon Festingers 1957 book presented a simple...Preface Since...
   
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   Dissonance and Self-Justification, in Psychological Inquiry » Read Now

   by George R. Goethals. 3 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...of the broad contributions of Leon Festinger and dissonance theory, and to...interest. The Contributions of Leon Festinger Aronson convincingly outlines several of...
   
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   Attitudes, Behavior, and Social Context: The Role of Norms and Group Membership (Chap. 12 "Cognitive Dissonance and the Social Group") » Read Now

   by Deborah J. Terry, Michael A. Hogg. 352 pgs.

   Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

   ...ATTITUDES, BEHAVIOR, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT The Role of Norms and Group Membership Applied Social Research Marlene Turner and Anthony R. Pratkanis, Series Editors...
   
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   Human Motivation ("Cognitive Dissonance" begins on p. 303) » Read Now

   by Bernard Weiner. 486 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

   ...subject to constant control from others, as exemplified by the Army or some boarding schools see Goffman, 1961 . Festinger, Pepitone, and Newcomb 1952 state: Anyone who...
   
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    Assumptions of Social Psychology » Read Now

    by Robert E. Lana. 180 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

    ...chapters are devoted to the social thinking of Freud and Horney, and to the theory of cognitive dissonance of Leon Festinger. It is obvious that in the list of social...
    
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    The Return of the Repressed: Dissonance Theory Makes a Comeback, in Psychological Inquiry » Read Now

    by Elliot Aronson. 9 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

    ...Santa Cruz In 1957, Leon Festingers theory of cognitive dissonance...to my dear friend and mentor, Leon Festinger, who died last year, marking...psychologists. Then along...
    
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    Cognitive Responses in Persuasion (Chap. 3 "Thought Disruption and Persuasion: Assessing the Validity of Attitude Change Experiments") » Read Now

    by Richard E. Petty, Thomas M. Ostrom, Timothy C. Brock. 476 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    
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    Topics in the History of Psychology, Vol. 2 (Discusses Leon Festinger's contributions in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Gregory A. Kimble, Kurt Schlesinger. 429 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

    ...on the scene that field theory began to have a significant influence on the field. These were the social psychologists, Festinger, Kelly, and others, who remain active in...
    
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    Reflections on 100 Years of Experimental Social Psychology (Chap. 4 "Adventures in Experimental Social Psychology: Roots, Branches, and Sticky New Leaves") » Read Now

    by Aroldo Rodrigues, Robert V. Levine. 245 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

    Published to mark the centenary of Tripplet's study of bicycle racers, this edited collection brings together the reflections of nine social psychologists who spoke at a conference at Yosemite National Park in 1997.
    
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    Texts and Subtexts, in Psychological Inquiry » Read Now

    by Barry E. Collins. 6 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

    ...in social psychology to date." Leon Festinger was social psychologys King...Bret Pelham. Proposition 1: Leon Festinger Was a Great Man (LF = 7; EA...imperfect, fallible...