Impact in Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics Behavioral Health and Interventions Papers in i Visual perception and processing mechanisms 9 Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction 3 Social and Intergroup Psychology 2 show more fields Overview Impact Hit Papers Peers Geography Research Space Co-Authors Works Léon Festinger's Hit Papers Conflict, Decision and Dissonance 1965 · 1.1k citations
1.1k 0 +24 +49 Years since publication 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k Peers Léon Festinger
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General Decision Sciences 2.2k Applied Psychology 4.4k Social Psychology 11.6k General Psychology 631 Marketing 3.8k Donald T. Campbell United States
Harold H. Kelley United States
Lee J. Cronbach United States
Robert B. Zajonc United States
Robert Rosenthal United States
Bernard Weiner United States
Fritz Heider United States
Julian B. Rotter United States
Richard E. Nisbett United States
Richard S. Lazarus United States
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Load more (20 of 80) Load more (20 of 80) About Léon Festinger Léon Festinger is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience , Sociology and Political Science , Social Psychology , Automotive Engineering and Ophthalmology , having authored 80 papers that have together received 44.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (9 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (3 papers), Ocular and Laser Science Research (3 papers), Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (3 papers), Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders (2 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (2 papers), Color Science and Applications (1 paper) and Color perception and design (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in General Decision Sciences (2.2k citations), Applied Psychology (4.4k citations), Social Psychology (11.6k citations), General Psychology (631 citations) and Marketing (3.8k citations). Léon Festinger has collaborated with scholars based in United States . Frequent co-authors include J. Merrill Carlsmith , José Luís , Stanley Schachter , Henry W. Riecken , Albert Pepitone , Daniel Katz , Theodore M. Newcomb , Nathan Maccoby , Donald F. Blankertz and Jerome S. Bruner . Their work appears in journals such as Vision Research , Human Relations , Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance , American Sociological Review and Journal of Applied Psychology .
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