Birth Name:

Leon Festinger

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, May 08, 1919

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

New York, New York, United States

Age:

105

Zodiac Sign:

Taurus

Astrology Data:

Sun

17°

Tau

0'

About Leon Festinger

Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) was an American social psychologist, perhaps best known for cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. His theories and research are credited with renouncing the previously dominant behaviorist view of social psychology by demonstrating the inadequacy of stimulus-response conditioning accounts of human behavior. Festinger is also credited with advancing the use of laboratory experimentation in social psychology, although he simultaneously stressed the importance of studying real-life situations, a principle he perhaps most famously practiced when personally infiltrating a doomsday cult. He is also known in social network theory for the proximity effect (or propinquity).

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External Links:

• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Leon Festinger: Sun 17 Taurus, Moon 6 Virgo, Mercury 20 Aries, Venus 25 Gemini, Mars 17 Taurus, Jupiter 12 Cancer, Saturn 21 Leo, Uranus 1 Pisces, Neptune 6 Leo, Pluto 5 Cancer, Sun Conjunct Mars, Mercury Trine Saturn, Sun Square Saturn, Venus Sextile Saturn, Mars Square Saturn, Mars Semi Square Pluto, Saturn Semi Square Pluto, Uranus Trine Pluto, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

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