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May 7, 2024 · Leon Festinger (born May 8, 1919, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died February 11, 1989, New York City) was an American cognitive psychologist, best known for his theory of cognitive dissonance, according to which inconsistency between thoughts, or between thoughts and actions, leads to discomfort (dissonance), which motivates changes in thoughts ...
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Jul 4, 2022 · Leon Festinger was born on May 8, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. His father and mother were Jewish-Russian immigrants named Alex Festinger and Sara Solomon Festinger. Festinger’s parents departed Russia for the United States just before the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Festinger was born in Brooklyn New York on May 8, 1919 to Russian-Jewish immigrants Alex Festinger and Sara Solomon Festinger. His father, an embroidery manufacturer, had "left Russia a radical and atheist and remained faithful to these views throughout his life."
- Early life. Leon Festinger was born on the 8th of May 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, Alex Festinger and Sara Solomon were two Jewish-Russian immigrants.
- Education. Festinger first got an education at the Boys’ High School – an institution from his borough. At the age of 20, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York under the guidance of Max Hertzman.
- Career. While attending the University of Iowa, Festinger had done research with Lewin. He kept on doing this until 1943. At the University of Rochester he became a senior statistician for the National Research Council’s Committee on the Selection and Training of Aircraft Pilots.
- Marriage and children. In New York, Leon Festinger met Trudy Bradley, whom he married. He also had three children by an earlier marriage (Catherine, Richard, and Kurt).
Nov 25, 2014 · Leon Festinger was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 8 May 1919 to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Alex Festinger and Sara Solomon Festinger. Leon’s father, an embroidery manufacturer, had left Russia an atheist and a radical, and he remained faithful to these convictions throughout his life.
Jun 11, 2018 · Born in Brooklyn, New York, Festinger was the son of Russian immigrants—Alex Festinger, an embroidery manufacturer, and Sara Solomon— who left Eastern Europe before World War I.
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Leon Festinger was born on May 8, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York. He completed his undergraduate studies at the City College of New York and later earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Iowa in 1942.
