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Festinger, Leon was born on May 8, 1919 in New York City. Son of Alex and Sarah (Solomon) Festinger.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: A Theory Of Cognitive Dissonance Author: Festinger, Leon Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Publication Date: 1957/12/31 Number of Pages: 291 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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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 major assumptions stand in apparent opposition to certain well-established experimental results. The book puts forward a new theory that seems to reconcile these data and assumptions. This new theory can account for data with which other theories have difficulty: it integrates empirical phenomena that have been regarded as unrelated, and it is supported by the results of experiments designed specifically to test its implications. These experiments are fully described in the text.
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Festinger, Leon was born on May 8, 1919 in New York City. Son of Alex and Sarah (Solomon) Festinger.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1939. Master of Arts, State University Iowa, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, State University Iowa, 1942.
Research associate, State University Iowa, 1941-1943; instructor, U. Rochester, 1943-1945; associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1945-1948; associate professor, University of Michigan, 1948-1951; professor psychology, University of Minnesota, 1951-1955; professor psychology, Stanford University, 1955-1968; Else and Hans Staudinger professor psychology, graduate faculty, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1968-1989.
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Fellow American Psychological Association (president division 8, 1963, Distinguished Scientist award 1959), American Academy Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences.
Married Mary Oliver Ballou, October 23, 1943. Children: Catherine, Richard, Kurt. Married Trudy Bradley, September 7, 1968.