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1.
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World
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Publisher:
Harper & Row 1956
Subjects:
Prophecies
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...Christ Was Educated," pp. 136-171. 39 P. 335. 40 P. 350. 41 P. 165. 42 P. 226. 43 Graetz, Vol. 2, p. 166. 44 The theory of dissonance and its implications are set forth in detail in aforthcoming book by Leon Festinger.
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The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State, 1917-1930
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Publisher:
Holmes & Meier 1992
Subjects:
Nationalism--Soviet Union
Minorities--Soviet Union
Soviet Union--Ethnic Relations
Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1917-1936
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...nationalities and the Bolshevik state,1917-1930 / Hélène Carrére d'Encausse; translated byNancy Festinger; foreword byRichard Pipes.p. cm.Translation of: Le grand défi.Includes bibliographical references and index...
3.
The Human Legacy
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Publisher:
Columbia University Press 1983
Subjects:
Social Evolution
Human Evolution
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ReferencesAllchin, G. 1956. Australian stone industries, past and present. Royal An­thropological Institute Journal, 87:115-36.Bahn, P. G. 1978. The unacceptable face of the west European Upper Paleo­lithic. Antiquity, 52:183-92.Bahn, P. G. 1980. Reply. Antiquity, 54:140-42.Bar-Yosef, O.
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Cognitive Social Psychology: The Princeton Symposium on the Legacy and Future of Social Cognition
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Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2001
Subjects:
Social Perception--Congresses
Social Psychology--Congresses
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...the theory of cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957). The premise of the original...drive state similar to hunger or thirst. Festinger (1957) theorized that, like other...However, in the case of dissonance, Festinger posited that people are motivated to...
5.
The Resurrection of the Son of God
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Publisher:
Fortress Press 2003
Subjects:
Jesus Christ--Resurrection
Church History--Early Church, Ca. 30-600
Christianity--Origin
Resurrection
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...andthereafter through the work of Leon Festinger.23 Its implicit force in theEaster...he was alive.Much of the material in Festinger's systematic presentation of the theoryrelates...a groupof first-century Jews, and Festinger and his colleagues did not, of course...
6.
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology - Vol. 3
Contributors:
Publisher:
American Psychological Association 1998
Subjects:
Psychologists--Biography
Psychology--History
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...Somerville, and, of course, Trudy Festinger.REFERENCESBeauvois J.-L., U...Bristol, PA: Taylor and Francis.Festinger L. (1950). Informal social...Psychological Review, 57, 271-282.Festinger L. (1954). A theory of...
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The Dynamics of Interpersonal Behavior
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Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons 1964
Subjects:
Interpersonal Relations
Social Interaction
Social Groups
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...Neurosis. New York: Norton,1945.Festinger Leon. Cognitive Dissonance, Scientific...Vol. 207, No. 4,October 1962.Festinger Leon. Group Attraction and Membership...New York: Row, Peterson, 1956.Festinger Leon. Informal Social Communication...
8.
Individual Behavior and Group Achievement: A Theory: The Experimental Evidence
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1959
Subjects:
Social Groups
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Festinger L. The analysis of sociograms using matrix algebra.Hum. Relat., 1949, 2, 153-8.Festinger L. Informal social communication. Psychol. Rev., 1950,57, 271-82.Festinger L. A theory of social comparison processes...
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Attitudes, Behavior, and Social Context: The Role of Norms and Group Membership
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Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2000
Subjects:
Social Groups--Psychological Aspects
Persuasion (Psychology)
Social Influence
Interpersonal Relations
Attitude Change
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...Journal of Psychology, 14, 55-64.Festinger L. (1950a). Experiments...35). New York: McGraw-Hill.Festinger L. (1950b). Informal...Psychological Review, 57, 271-282.Festinger L. (1953). An analysis...
10.
Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2005
Subjects:
Management
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Festinger's (1957) book on dissonance theory. Festinger actually began “on assign­ment,”...for a compendium of social-science findings. Basedon Festinger's work regarding informal social communication, the...
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