Leon Festinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 258935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leon Festinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leon |
| FAMILY NAME | Festinger |
| SIGNATURE | FESTINGER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3729 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Theorie der kognitiven Dissonanz
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Leon Festinger’s 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology – one that made its author one of the most influential social psychologists of his time. It is also a prime example of how creative thinking and problem solving skills can come together to produce work that changes the way people look at questions for good. Strong creative thinkers are able to look at things from a new perspective, often to the point…
The Social Organization of Early Human Groups
The Legacy of Lewin
When Prophecy Fails
Conflict, decision, and dissonance.
Behavioral Support for Opinion Change
On resistance to persuasive communications
Cognitive Dissonance
The effectiveness of "overheard" persuasive communications
To enable competitive industrial production, it is crucial to understand how to design and operate competitive production systems. Today, much operations management research focuses on the environm
The psychological effects of insufficient rewards
The effectiveness of unanticipated persuasive communications
Preparatory action and belief in the probable occurrence of future events
Les méthodes de recherche dans les sciences sociales
Bassoul René. Les méthodes de recherche dans les sciences sociales. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1960, 1-2. pp. 247-248
Cognitive consequences of forced compliance
WHAT happens to a person's privateopinion if he is forced to do or saysomething contrary to that opin-ion? Only recently has there been, any experi-mental work related to this question. Two stud-ies reported by Janis and King (1954; 1956) clearly showed that, at least under some condi-tions, the private opinion changes so as to bring it into closer correspondence with the overt behavior the person was forced to perform. Specifically, they showed …
Contemporary Approaches to Cognition
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem of why partial reward, delay of reward , and effort expenditure during training result in increased resistance to extinction. The author contends that a state of impasse exists within learning theory largely because some of its ma…
A Study of Thinking. J. S. Bruner , J. J. Goodnow , G. A. Austin
Pressures Toward Uniformity of Performance in Groups
When Prophecy Fails
When prophecy fails
In 1954 Leon Festinger, a brilliant young experimental social psychologist in the process of inventing a new theory of human behavior - the theory of cognitive dissonance - and two of his colleagues, Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter, infiltrated a cult who believed the end of the world was only months away. How would these people feel when their prophecy remained unfulfilled? Would they admit the error of their prediction, or would they, as Fe…
Who shall survive
Tendencies toward Group Comparability in Competitive Bargaining
Self-Evaluation as a Function of Attraction to the Group
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
Hypothesis I: There exists, in the human organism, a drive to evaluate his opinions and his abilities. While opinions and abilities may, at first glance, seem to be quite different things, there is a close functional tie between them. They act together in the manner in which they affect behavior. A person’s cognition (his opinions and beliefs) about the situation in which he exists and his appraisals of what he is capable of doing (his evaluation…
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
Hypothesis I: There exists, in the human organism, a drive to evaluate his opinions and his abilities. While opinions and abilities may, at first glance, seem to be quite different things, there is a close functional tie between them. They act together in the manner in which they affect behavior. A person’s cognition (his opinions and beliefs) about the situation in which he exists and his appraisals of what he is capable of doing (his evaluation…
Social Pressures in Informal Groups
Cognitive consequences of forced compliance
WHAT happens to a person's privateopinion if he is forced to do or saysomething contrary to that opin-ion? Only recently has there been, any experi-mental work related to this question. Two stud-ies reported by Janis and King (1954; 1956) clearly showed that, at least under some condi-tions, the private opinion changes so as to bring it into closer correspondence with the overt behavior the person was forced to perform. Specifically, they showed …
Behavioral Support for Opinion Change
The Influence Process in the Presence of Extreme Deviates
Tendencies toward Group Comparability in Competitive Bargaining
Interpersonal communication in small groups
Major conclusions drawn from experimental work with small face-to-face groups are summarized. The authors report an experimental study in which (1) amount of pressure toward uniformity, and (2) degree to which members perceived the group as homogeneously composed was manipulated. It was found that “
A Study of a Rumor: Its Origin and Spread
The Analysis of Sociograms using Matrix Algebra
Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences
On resistance to persuasive communications
The effectiveness of "overheard" persuasive communications
To enable competitive industrial production, it is crucial to understand how to design and operate competitive production systems. Today, much operations management research focuses on the environm
Briefer Studies and Annotations: The Methodology of Studying Rumor Transmission
The effectiveness of unanticipated persuasive communications
The Role of Group Belongingness in a Voting Situation
The psychological effects of insufficient rewards
Self-Evaluation as a Function of Attraction to the Group
Architecture and Group Membership
Wish, expectation, and group standards as factors influencing level of aspiration
An experimental investigation of the effect of unstable interpersonal relations in a group
Preparatory action and belief in the probable occurrence of future events
"The treatment of qualitative data by "scale analysis
Pressures Toward Uniformity of Performance in Groups
Conflict, decision, and dissonance.
Wish, expectation, and group standards as factors influencing level of aspiration
The Role of Group Belongingness in a Voting Situation
"The treatment of qualitative data by "scale analysis
A Study of a Rumor: Its Origin and Spread
The Analysis of Sociograms using Matrix Algebra
Informal social communication.
Briefer Studies and Annotations: The Methodology of Studying Rumor Transmission
Social Pressures in Informal Groups
Architecture and Group Membership
Interpersonal communication in small groups
Major conclusions drawn from experimental work with small face-to-face groups are summarized. The authors report an experimental study in which (1) amount of pressure toward uniformity, and (2) degree to which members perceived the group as homogeneously composed was manipulated. It was found that “
The Influence Process in the Presence of Extreme Deviates
Who shall survive
Tendencies toward Group Comparability in Competitive Bargaining
Self-Evaluation as a Function of Attraction to the Group
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
Hypothesis I: There exists, in the human organism, a drive to evaluate his opinions and his abilities. While opinions and abilities may, at first glance, seem to be quite different things, there is a close functional tie between them. They act together in the manner in which they affect behavior. A person’s cognition (his opinions and beliefs) about the situation in which he exists and his appraisals of what he is capable of doing (his evaluation…
Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences
A Contribution to methodology in the Social Sciences
Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences
An experimental investigation of the effect of unstable interpersonal relations in a group
When prophecy fails
In 1954 Leon Festinger, a brilliant young experimental social psychologist in the process of inventing a new theory of human behavior - the theory of cognitive dissonance - and two of his colleagues, Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter, infiltrated a cult who believed the end of the world was only months away. How would these people feel when their prophecy remained unfulfilled? Would they admit the error of their prediction, or would they, as Fe…
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem of why partial reward, delay of reward , and effort expenditure during training result in increased resistance to extinction. The author contends that a state of impasse exists within learning theory largely because some of its ma…
A Study of Thinking. J. S. Bruner , J. J. Goodnow , G. A. Austin
Pressures Toward Uniformity of Performance in Groups
When Prophecy Fails
Contemporary Approaches to Cognition
Psychology (31 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Cognitive psychology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive dissonance (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Group (periodic table (4 works)