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Biographical Memoirs: Volume 64 (1994)
dour events go in academia, a remarkable occasion. Virtually all of his old students and many of his former colleagues and collaborators from all over the country, and indeed the world, flooded the auditorium. The eulogies were lavish and well deserved, for Leon Festinger was one of the most important psychologists of our time.
Festinger was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 8, 1919, to Alex Festinger, an embroidery manufacturer, and Sara Solomon Festinger. He went to Boys' High School, City College, and, for graduate study, to the University of Iowa, where he worked with Kurt Lewin, a Gestalt and Field theorist who had fled the Nazis to arrive in an America where the psychological establishment, though hardly a dictatorship, was ruled by an even more dogmatic group, also convinced that it had the Truth, called Behaviorists.
Lewin and his students probably did more than any other group of scientists to mold psychology into an enterprise concerned with more than stimulus-response connections but with dynamic processes involving perce
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Leon Festinger
American social psychologist
Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) 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.[1] Festinger is also credited with advancing the use of laboratory experimentation in social psychology,[2] although he simultaneously stressed the importance of studying real-life situations,[3] a principle he practiced when personally infiltrating a doomsday cult. He is also known in social network theory for the proximity effect (or propinquity).[4]
Festinger studied psychology under Kurt Lewin, an important figure in modern social psychology, at the University of Iowa, graduating in 1941;[5] however, he did not develop an interest in social psychology until after joining the faculty at Lewin's Rese
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Leon Festinger (May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989) was an Americanpsychologist. He is regarded as one of the most significant social psychologists of the twentieth century, his work showing that it is possible to use the scientific method to investigate complex and significant social phenomena previously considered not amenable to measurement. Festinger's work was significant not only within the academic discipline of psychology, but also impacted the general public's understanding of human behavior. For example, he is best known for his theory of cognitive dissonance, which suggests that inconsistency, or “dissonance,” among beliefs or behaviors and evidence causes an uncomfortable psychological tension that must be eliminated in order to restore balance, which has numerous applications to our everyday lives. Thus, in consumerism when a person makes a choice to buy one product over another generally avoids further comparisons with other products that might have better features, and when forced to confront such features changes his evaluation of the importance of the disso
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