Leon Festinger

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

Influence

6

Resistance

3

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) was an American social psychologist who originated the theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Leon Festinger”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia