Elliot Aronson (born January 1932) is listed among the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century, best known for his Jigsaw Classroom experiments, cognitive dissonance research, and bestselling Social Psychology textbooks. He is the only person in the 120-year history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its major awards: For distinguished writing (1973), for distinguished teaching (1980), and for distinguis...
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Elliot Aronson (born January 1932) is listed among the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century, best known for his Jigsaw Classroom experiments, cognitive dissonance research, and bestselling Social Psychology textbooks. He is the only person in the 120-year history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its major awards: For distinguished writing (1973), for distinguished teaching (1980), and for distinguished research (1999). In 2007 he received the William James Award for Distinguished Research from the Association for Psychological Science.
Aronson grew up during the Great Depression in the town of Revere, Massachusetts, where he, as a young Jewish boy, was forced on many occasions to defend himself from physical assaults by antisemitic bullies. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 1954 (where he worked with Abraham Maslow), his Master's degree from Wesleyan University in 1956 (where he worked with David McClelland),...
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