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Leon Festinger
Leon Festinger
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War. He left Russia a radical and an atheist and remained faithful to these views throughout his life.
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more than any other group of scientists to mold psychology into an enterprise concernecI with more than stimulus-response connections but with dynamic processes involving perception, motivation, ant! cognition.
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The study involved the conjoint use of interviews about attitudes to MIT housing and of sociometric questionnaires, that is, measures of the social relationships within the various projects by use of questions such as "Which people here do you see most often socially? " In addition to the material of interest to the housing people at MIT, several facts emerged powerfully from the clata.
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Worrying through the meaning of these facts led Festinger and his students to the clevelopment of an experimental laboratory program of research that many consider the birth of systematic experimental social psychology. Their problems were many; they had to devise means of manipulating such ephemeral social variables as affection, social cohesion, group structure, deviancy, ant!
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The honors continued throughout his career. In 1978 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Mannheim, in 1980 he was named Einstein Visiting Fellow of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and also in 1980 he received the Distinguished Senior Scientist Award of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
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These includes! an experimental examination of the cognitive consequences of forced compliance; studies in both rats and humans of the effects of insufficient reward; a field} study of the effects of being wrong on the proselyting efforts of a millenial group; and on and on in a body of work that EdwarcI Jones (1976)
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abanclonecl experimental psychology altogether. His explanation, in his own words, was (Festinger, 1983~: Four years ago I closed my laboratory which, over time, had been devoted to studying ever narrowing aspects of how the human eye moves.
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IndeecI, a recent book callect Papacy, Councils and Canon Law in the 11th-12th Centuries is dedicated by its author Robert Somerville (1990) to the memory of Leon Festinger surely the only time in intel
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University Press.
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Studies in decision: I Decision-time, relative frequency of judgment, and subjective confidence as related to physical stimulus difference.
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Deterrents and Reinforcement: The Psychology of Insufficient Reward. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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New York: Columbia University Press.
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