Impact in Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics Behavioral Health and Interventions Papers in Visual perception and processing mechanisms 9 Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction 3 Motor Control and Adaptation 1 Ocular and Laser Science Research 3 show more fields Overview Impact Standout Papers Peers Geography Research Space Co-Authors Works Hit Papers Conflict, Decision and Dissonance 1965 · 843 citations
843 1952 2026 1976 2001 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k Peers Léon Festinger
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General Decision Sciences 1.8k Applied Psychology 4.1k Social Psychology 10.3k General Psychology 481 Marketing 3.5k Donald T. Campbell United States
Harold H. Kelley United States
Lee J. Cronbach United States
Bernard Weiner United States
Robert Rosenthal United States
Julian B. Rotter United States
Robert B. Zajonc United States
Richard E. Nisbett United States
Fritz Heider United States
Richard S. Lazarus United States
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All Works Load more (20 of 68) Load more (20 of 68) About Léon Festinger Léon Festinger is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience , Ophthalmology , Public Administration , Automotive Engineering and Social Psychology , having authored 68 papers that have together received 38.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (9 papers), Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (3 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (3 papers), Ocular and Laser Science Research (3 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (2 papers), Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders (2 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (1 paper) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in General Decision Sciences (1.8k citations), Applied Psychology (4.1k citations), Social Psychology (10.3k citations), General Psychology (481 citations) and Marketing (3.5k 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 , Donald F. Blankertz , Theodore M. Newcomb , Nathan Maccoby and Daniel Katz . Their work appears in journals such as Vision Research , Human Relations , Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance , American Sociological Review and Psychological Review .
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