Leon Festinger
8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989
19 works on record
Works
When prophecy fails
1956
Retrospections on social psychology
The Human Legacy
Extending psychological frontiers
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Social pressures in informal groups
Research methods in the behaviorial sciences
Conflict, decision, and dissonance
Contemporary Approaches to Cognition
Approach to Measuring Results in Social Work
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes,
Theory and experiment in social communication
EXPERIMENTS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
Comparison of student pilot performance in successive check flights as measured by photographic records
An analysis of inspectors' ratings of check flights as recorded on form ACA 342Z
Informal social communication
Cognitive dissonance
Changing attitudes through social contact