Léon Festinger

64.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
68 papers, 38.6k citations indexed

About

Léon Festinger is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Léon Festinger has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 38.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Léon Festinger's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (9 papers), Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (3 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (3 papers). Léon Festinger is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (9 papers), Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (3 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (3 papers). Léon Festinger collaborates with scholars based in United States. Léon Festinger's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Marketing and Journal of Applied Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Léon Festinger

66 papers receiving 34.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

1957 15.3k citations Léon Festinger Stanford University Press eBooks profile →
A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

1954 13.6k citations Léon Festinger Human Relations profile →
Cognitive consequences of forced compliance.

1959 1.4k citations Léon Festinger et al. Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology profile →
Cognitive consequences of forced compliance.

1959 1.4k citations Léon Festinger et al. profile →
Conflict, Decision and Dissonance

1965 843 citations Léon Festinger et al. profile →
Cognitive Dissonance

1962 767 citations Léon Festinger profile →
When prophecy fails.

1956 536 citations Léon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken et al. University of Minnesota Press eBooks profile →
Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences

1954 474 citations Léon Festinger, Daniel Katz et al. profile →
Some consequences of de-individuation in a group.

1952 445 citations Léon Festinger et al. Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Léon Festinger United States	39	15.8k	10.3k	4.7k	4.1k	3.7k	68	38.6k
Donald T. Campbell United States	55	13.8k 0.9×	10.1k 1.0×	7.4k 1.6×	3.2k 0.8×	4.6k 1.3×	175	57.9k
Lee J. Cronbach United States	47	9.3k 0.6×	11.5k 1.1×	9.5k 2.0×	4.3k 1.0×	5.4k 1.5×	118	63.0k
Harold H. Kelley United States	43	11.2k 0.7×	8.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.4×	4.1k 1.1×	84	24.0k
Julian B. Rotter United States	28	7.2k 0.5×	8.6k 0.8×	6.1k 1.3×	3.3k 0.8×	3.5k 0.9×	49	28.7k
Bernard Weiner United States	72	9.9k 0.6×	13.1k 1.3×	5.8k 1.2×	2.7k 0.7×	3.7k 1.0×	205	32.0k
Harry C. Triandis United States	73	17.8k 1.1×	20.5k 2.0×	4.6k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	8.5k 2.3×	205	46.0k
Shelly Chaiken United States	59	16.9k 1.1×	8.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.5×	6.0k 1.5×	2.5k 0.7×	89	32.4k
Karl G. Jöreskog United States	48	7.7k 0.5×	7.2k 0.7×	4.8k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	6.3k 1.7×	101	37.4k
Richard E. Nisbett United States	84	14.3k 0.9×	17.7k 1.7×	4.1k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.6×	171	45.4k
Robert B. Cialdini United States	75	18.8k 1.2×	9.5k 0.9×	2.7k 0.6×	7.2k 1.7×	3.1k 0.8×	195	40.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Léon Festinger

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Aronson, Elliot & Léon Festinger. (1997). Back to the Future: Retrospective Review of Leon Festinger's "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance". The American Journal of Psychology. 110(1). 127–127. 79 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon. (1993). La teoría de la disonancia cognoscitiva (extracto por A. Ovejero). Psicothema. 5(1). 201–206. 3 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon. (1981). Human Nature and Human Competence. 48. 3 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon & Jeffrey D. Holtzman. (1978). Retinal image smear as a source of information about magnitude of eye movement.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 4(4). 573–585. 12 indexed citations

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Miller, Joel M. & Léon Festinger. (1977). Impact of oculomotor retraining on the visual perception of curvature.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 3(2). 187–200. 4 indexed citations

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Miller, Joel M. & Léon Festinger. (1977). Impact of oculomotor retraining on the visual perception of curvature.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 3(2). 187–200. 34 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon & Daniel Katz. (1974). Les méthodes de recherche dans les sciences sociales. Presses Universitaires de France eBooks. 150. 4 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon & Alexander Easton. (1974). Inferences about the efferent system based on a perceptual illusion produced by eye movements.. Psychological Review. 81(1). 44–58. 33 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon, et al.. (1970). The Effect of Attention on Brightness Contrast and Assimilation. The American Journal of Psychology. 83(2). 189–189. 63 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon, et al.. (1968). Eye movements and decrement in the Muller-Lyer illusion.. Perception & Psychophysics. 3(5). 376–382. 88 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon, et al.. (1968). Eye movements and decrement in the Müller-Lyer illusion. Perception & Psychophysics. 3(5). 376–382.

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Bruner, Jerome S., Egon Brunswik, & Léon Festinger. (1968). Contemporary approaches to cognition : a symposium held at the University of Colorado. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 15 indexed citations

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Lambert, William W., Douglas H. Lawrence, & Léon Festinger. (1965). Deterrents and Reinforcements: The Psychology of Insufficient Reward. The American Journal of Psychology. 78(1). 155–155. 6 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon. (1962). A theory of congnitive dissonance. Stanford University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Walster, Elaine & Léon Festinger. (1962). The effectiveness of "overheard" persuasive communications.. Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology. 65(6). 395–402. 115 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Douglas H. & Léon Festinger. (1962). Deterrents and reinforcement : the psychology of insufficient reward. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 85 indexed citations

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Festinger, Léon. (1957). A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Stanford University Press eBooks. 15300 indexed citations breakdown →

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Festinger, Léon, Henry W. Riecken, & Stanley Schachter. (1956). When prophecy fails.. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 536 indexed citations breakdown →

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Festinger, Léon. (1954). A Theory of Social Comparison Processes. Human Relations. 7(2). 117–140. 13613 indexed citations breakdown →

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Festinger, Léon, et al.. (1951). Social Pressures in Informal Groups. Land Economics. 27(1). 85–85. 88 indexed citations

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