Leon Festinger
Bizitza
Jaiotza	Manhattan, 1919ko maiatzaren 8a
Herrialdea	Ameriketako Estatu Batuak
Heriotza	New York, 1989ko otsailaren 11 (69 urte)
Heriotza modua	berezko heriotza: minbizia
Hezkuntza
Heziketa	City College of New York (en) 1939) Zientziatan graduatua : psikologia Iowako Unibertsitatea 1940) master Iowako Unibertsitatea 1942) Doktoretza : Garapenaren psikologia Boys High School
Hezkuntza-maila	Doktoretza
Tesi zuzendaria	Kurt Lewin
Doktorego ikaslea(k)	Stanley Schachter Elliot Aronson (en) Harold B. Gerard (en) Bertram Raven (en) Judson Ridgway Mills (en)
Hizkuntzak	ingelesa
Ikaslea(k)	ikusi Elliot Aronson (en) Philip Zimbardo Stanley Schachter
Jarduerak
Jarduerak	psikologoa eta unibertsitateko irakaslea
Enplegatzailea(k)	Michigango Unibertsitatea Minnesotako Unibertsitatea
Jasotako sariak	ikusi APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology  (1959)
Kidetza	Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako Zientzien Akademia Nazionala Zientziak Aurrera Egiteko Elkarte Amerikarra Arteen eta Zientzien Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako Akademia
Sinesmenak eta ideologia
Erlijioa	ateismoa

Leon Festinger (New York, 1919ko maiatzaren 8a – ib., 1989ko otsailaren 11) psikologo sozial estatubatuarra izan zen, bere disonantzia kognitibo eta konparazio sozialen teoriengatik ezaguna.^[1][2][3][4]

• Allyn, J., & Festinger, L. (1961). Effectiveness of Unanticipated Persuasive Communications. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 62(1), 35–40.^[5]
• Back, K., Festinger, L., Hymovitch, B., Kelley, H., Schachter, S., & Thibaut, J. (1950). The methodology of studying rumor transmission. Human Relations, 3(3), 307–312.^[6]
• Brehm, J., & Festinger, L. (1957). Pressures toward uniformity of performance in groups. Human Relations, 10(1), 85–91.^[7]
• Cartwright, D., & Festinger, L. (1943). A quantitative theory of decision. Psychological Review, 50, 595–621.^[8]
• Coren, S., & Festinger, L. (1967). Alternative view of the "Gibson normalization effect". Perception & Psychophysics, 2(12), 621–626.^[9]
• Festinger, L. (1942a). A theoretical interpretation of shifts in level of aspiration. Psychological Review, 49, 235–250.^[10]
• Festinger, L. (1942b). Wish, expectation, and group standards as factors influencing level of aspiration. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 37, 184–200.^[11]
• Festinger, L. (1943a). Development of differential appetite in the rat. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32(3), 226–234.^[12]
• Festinger, L. (1943b). An exact test of significance for means of samples drawn from populations with an exponential frequency distribution. Psychometrika, 8, 153–160.^[13]
• Festinger, L. (1943c). A statistical test for means of samples from skew populations. Psychometrika, 8, 205–210.^[14]
• Festinger, L. (1943d). Studies in decision: I. Decision-time, relative frequency of judgment and subjective confidence as related to physical stimulus difference. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32(4), 291–306.^[15]
• Festinger, L. (1943e). Studies in decision: II. An empirical test of a quantitative theory of decision. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32(5), 411–423.^[16]
• Festinger, L. (1946). The significance of difference between means without reference to the frequency distribution function. Psychometrika, 11(2), 97–105.^[17]
• Festinger, L. (1947a). The role of group belongingness in a voting situation. Human Relations, 1(2), 154–180.^[18]
• Festinger, L. (1947b). The treatment of qualitative data by scale analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 44(2), 149–161.^[19]
• Festinger, L. (1949). The analysis of sociograms using matrix algebra. Human Relations, 2(2), 153–158.^[20]
• Festinger, L. (1950). Informal social communication. Psychological Review, 57(5), 271–282.^[21]
• Festinger, L. (1950b). Psychological Statistics. Psychometrika, 15(2), 209–213.
• Festinger, L. (1951). Architecture and group membership. Journal of Social Issues, 7(1–2), 152–163.^[22]
• Festinger, L. (1952). Some consequences of de-individuation in a group. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 47(2), 382–389.^[23]
• Festinger, L. (1954). A theory of social comparison processes. Human Relations, 7, 117–140.^[24]
• Festinger, L. (1955a). Handbook of social psychology, vol 1, Theory and method, vol 2, Special fields and applications. Journal of Applied Psychology, 39(5), 384–385.^[25]
• Festinger, L. (1955b). Social psychology and group processes. Annual Review of Psychology, 6, 187–216.^[26]
• Festinger, L. (1957). A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.^[27]
• Festinger, L. (1959a). Sampling and related problems in research methodology. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 64(2), 358–369.^[28]
• Festinger, L. (1959b). Some attitudinal consequences of forced decisions. Acta Psychologica, 15, 389–390.
• Festinger, L. (1961). The psychological effects of insufficient rewards. American Psychologist, 16(1), 1–11.^[29]
• Festinger, L. (1962). Cognitive dissonance. Scientific American, 207(4), 93–107.^[30]
• Festinger, L. (1964). Behavioral support for opinion change. Public Opinion Quarterly, 28(3), 404–417.^[31]
• Festinger, L. (Ed.). (1980). Retrospections on Social Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.^[32]
• Festinger, L. (1981). Human nature and human competence. Social Research, 48(2), 306–321.
• Festinger, L. (1983). The Human Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Festinger, L., & Canon, L. K. (1965). Information about spatial location based on knowledge about efference. Psychological Review, 72(5), 373–384.
• Festinger, L., & Carlsmith, J. M. (1959). Cognitive consequences of forced compliance. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 58(2), 203–210.^[33]
• Festinger, L., Cartwright, D., Barber, K., Fleischl, J., Gottsdanker, J., Keysen, A., & Leavitt, G. (1948). A study of rumor transition: Its origin and spread. Human Relations, 1(4), 464–486.^[34]
• Festinger, L., Gerard, H., Hymovitch, B., Kelley, H. H., & Raven, B. (1952). The influence process in the presence of extreme deviates. Human Relations, 5(4), 327–346.^[35]
• Festinger, L., & Holtzman, J. D. (1978). Retinal image smear as a source of information about magnitude of eye-movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 4(4), 573–585.^[36]
• Festinger, L., & Hutte, H. A. (1954). An experimental investigation of the effect of unstable interpersonal relations in a group. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 49(4), 513–522.
• Festinger, L., & Katz, D. (Eds.). (1953). Research methods in the behavioral sciences. New York, NY: Dryden.^[37]
• Festinger, L., & Maccoby, N. (1964). On resistance to persuasive communications. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 68(4), 359–366.^[38]
• Festinger, L., Riecken, H. W., & Schachter, S. (1956). When Prophecy Fails. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.^[39]
• Festinger, L., Schachter, S., & Back, K. (1950). Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Festinger, L., Sedgwick, H. A., & Holtzman, J. D. (1976). Visual-perception during smooth pursuit eye-movements. Vision Research, 16(12), 1377–1386.^[40]
• Festinger, L., & Thibaut, J. (1951). Interpersonal communication in small groups. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 46(1), 92–99.^[41]
• Festinger, L., Torrey, J., & Willerman, B. (1954). Self-evaluation as a function of attraction to the group. Human Relations, 7(2), 161–174.^[42]
• Hertzman, M., & Festinger, L. (1940). Shifts in explicit goals in a level of aspiration experiment. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 27(4), 439–452.^[43]
• Hochberg, J., & Festinger, L. (1979). Is there curvature adaptation not attributable to purely intravisual phenomena. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2(1), 71–71.^[44]
• Hoffman, P. J., Festinger, L., & Lawrence, D. H. (1954). Tendencies toward group comparability in competitive bargaining. Human Relations, 7(2), 141–159.^[45]
• Holtzman, J. D., Sedgwick, H. A., & Festinger, L. (1978). Interaction of perceptually monitored and unmonitored efferent commands for smooth pursuit eye movements. Vision Research, 18(11), 1545–1555.^[46]
• Komoda, M. K., Festinger, L., & Sherry, J. (1977). The accuracy of two-dimensional saccades in the absence of continuing retinal stimulation. Vision Research, 17(10), 1231–1232.^[47]
• Miller, J., & Festinger, L. (1977). Impact of oculomotor retraining on visual-perception of curvature. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 3(2), 187–200.^[48]
• Schachter, S., Festinger, L., Willerman, B., & Hyman, R. (1961). Emotional disruption and industrial productivity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 45(4), 201–213.^[49]