Preface - Stanley Schachter and Michael Gazzaniga
Contents
Introduction - Henri Zukier
Part A. Individual Psychology
1. Wish, Expectation, and Group Standards as Factors Influencing Level of Aspiration - Leon Festinger
2. A Theoretical Interpretation of Shifts in Level of Aspiration - Leon Festinger
3. Level of Aspiration - Kurt Lewin, Tamara Dembo, Leon Festinger, and Pauline Snedden Sears
4. A Quantitative Theory of Decision - Darwin Cartwright and Leon Festinger
Part B. Social Comparison Theory and Research
5. Informal Social Communication - Leon Festinger
6. A Theory of Social Comparison Processes - Leon Festinger
7. Interpersonal Communication in Small Groups - Leon Festinger and John Thibaut
8. Tendencies Toward Group Comparability in Competitive Bargaining - Paul J. Hoffman, Leon Festinger, and Douglas H. Lawrence
Part C. Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Research
9. A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance - Leon Festinger
10. The Arousal and Reduction of Dissonance in Social Contexts - Leon Festinger and Elliot Aronson
11. When Prophecy Fails - Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter
12. Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance - Leon Festinger and James M. Carlsmith
13. The Psychological Effects of Insufficient Rewards - Leon Festinger
Part D. Perceptual Processes
14. Efference and the Conscious Experience of Perception - Leon Festinger, Clarke A. Burnham, Hiroshi Ono, and Donald Bamber
15. Inferences About the Efferent System Based on a Perceptual Illusion Produced by Eye Movements - Leon Festinger and A. Montague Easton
16. Visual Perception During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements - Leon Festinger, Harold A. Sedgwick, and Jeffrey D. Holtzman
Part E. The Human Legacy
17. The Human Legacy - Leon Festinger
18. The Social Organization of Early Human Groups - Leon Festinger
Part F. A Miscellany
19. Development of Differential Appetite in the Rat - Leon Festinger
20. Some Consequences of De-Individuation in a Group - Leon Festinger, A. Pepitone, and T. Newcomb
21. The Effectiveness of Unanticipated Persuasive Communications - Leon Festinger and Jane Allyn
22. The Effectiveness of "Overheard" Persuasive Communications - Elaine Walster and Leon Festinger
23. On Resistance to Persuasive Communications - Leon Festinger and Nathan Maccoby
24. Laboratory Experiments - Leon Festinger
Part G. Biographical Notes
Editors' Note
Looking Backward - Leon Festinger
Part H. Bibliography
Published Works of Leon Festinger
Name Index
Subject Index