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Elliot Aronson, an Uncommon card
Elliot Aronson is an American psychologist who has carried out experiments on the theory of cognitive dissonance, and invented the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative teaching technique that facilitates learning while reducing interethnic hostility and prejudice.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Elliot Aronson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Elliot Aronson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
In his ____ social psychology textbook, The Social Animal, he stated Aronson's First Law: "People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy", thus asserting the importance of situational factors in bizarre behavior.
Answer
1970s. In his 1972 social psychology textbook, The Social Animal, he stated Aronson's First Law: "People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy", thus asserting the importance of situational factors in bizarre behavior. From the Elliot Aronson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Kenneth Arrow. Kenneth Arrow 50,000 · John Vincent Atanasoff 35,000 · Elliot Aronson 16,000 · Cartographic generalization 7,700 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In his 1972 social psychology textbook, The Social Animal, he stated Aronson's First Law: "People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy", thus asserting the importance of situational factors in bizarre behavior.
- 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 writing, for teaching, and for research.
- In 2007, he received the William James Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for Psychological Science, in which he was cited as the scientist who "fundamentally changed the way we look at everyday life".
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Elliot Aronson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Vera Aronson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
