In an experiment with Albert Pepitone and Thomas Newcomb, this man gave subjects a falsified study saying that most college students hated their parents, causing people in the group to feel safer talking about parental issues Â– that study coined the term later used by Philip Zimbardo, deindividuation.
In an experiment with Albert Pepitone and Thomas Newcomb, this man gave subjects a falsified study saying that most college students hated their parents, causing people in the group to feel safer talking about parental issues Â– that study coined the term later used by Philip Zimbardo, deindividuation. In another work, he interviewed a ";connoiter"; who claimed to remember the day she was conceived and who stated that atomic bombs had broken the sonic barrier. Along with that work discussing such individuals as Edna Post and Dr. Armstrong, this psychologist observed that people cease comparing themselves to others with dissimilar skill levels in ";A Theory of Social Comparison Processes."; He also devised a boring peg-turning task for which participants were paid either 1 or 20 dollars. Along with Riecken and Schachter, he wrote about Marion Keech, the leader of a doomsday cult. For 10 points, name this author of When Prophecy Fails who pioneered cognitive dissonance theory.
In an experiment with Albert Pepitone and Thomas Newcomb, this man gave subjects a falsified study saying that most college students hated their parents, causing people in the group to feel safer talking about parental issues Â– that study coined the term later used by Philip Zimbardo, deindividuation.
Leon  Festinger