Leon Festinger (English Wikipedia)

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"Festinger, a professed atheist, was an original thinker and a restless, highly motivated individual with (in his words) "little tolerance for boredom". " Franz Samelson: "Festinger, Leon", American National Biography Online, Feb. 2000 (accessed April 28, 2008) .

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Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Renee; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; Powell, John L. III; Beavers, Jamie; Monte, Emmanuelle (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)

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Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Renee; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; Powell, John L. III; Beavers, Jamie; Monte, Emmanuelle (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)
Bem, D. J. (1967). "Self-perception: An alternative interpretation of cognitive dissonance phenomena". Psychological Review. 74 (3): 183–200. doi:10.1037/h0024835. PMID 5342882 – via APA PsycNet.
Vaidis, David; Bran, Alexandre (May 29, 2019). "Respectable challenges to respectable theory: Cognitive dissonance theory requires conceptualization clarification and operational tools". Frontiers in Psychology. 10 (1189) 1189. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01189. PMC 6549475. PMID 31191395.
Festinger, Leon (June 1946). "The significance of difference between means without reference to the frequency distribution function". Psychometrika. 11 (2): 97–105. doi:10.1007/BF02288926. PMID 20986724.

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Berry, Kenneth J.; Mielke, Paul W. Jr.; Johnston, Joel E. (December 2012). "The Two-sample Rank-sum Test: Early Development" (PDF). Journal électronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique. 8 (2): 1–10. Retrieved December 1, 2025.

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Bem, D. J. (1967). "Self-perception: An alternative interpretation of cognitive dissonance phenomena". Psychological Review. 74 (3): 183–200. doi:10.1037/h0024835. PMID 5342882 – via APA PsycNet.
Vaidis, David; Bran, Alexandre (May 29, 2019). "Respectable challenges to respectable theory: Cognitive dissonance theory requires conceptualization clarification and operational tools". Frontiers in Psychology. 10 (1189) 1189. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01189. PMC 6549475. PMID 31191395.
Festinger, Leon (June 1946). "The significance of difference between means without reference to the frequency distribution function". Psychometrika. 11 (2): 97–105. doi:10.1007/BF02288926. PMID 20986724.

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Vaidis, David; Bran, Alexandre (May 29, 2019). "Respectable challenges to respectable theory: Cognitive dissonance theory requires conceptualization clarification and operational tools". Frontiers in Psychology. 10 (1189) 1189. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01189. PMC 6549475. PMID 31191395.

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"Trudy B. Festinger". socialwork.nyu.edu. Retrieved June 2, 2023.

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Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Renee; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; Powell, John L. III; Beavers, Jamie; Monte, Emmanuelle (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)

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Haggbloom, Steven J.; Warnick, Renee; Warnick, Jason E.; Jones, Vinessa K.; Yarbrough, Gary L.; Russell, Tenea M.; Borecky, Chris M.; McGahhey, Reagan; Powell, John L. III; Beavers, Jamie; Monte, Emmanuelle (2002). "The 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century". Review of General Psychology. 6 (2): 139–152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.586.1913. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.6.2.139. S2CID 145668721. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)

Leon Festinger (English Wikipedia)

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