Elliot Aronson
Social psychologist and professor
Elliot Aronson is an American social psychologist known for his cognitive dissonance experiments and for creating the Jigsaw Classroom teaching method.
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American Born 1932 in Chelsea, United States
About Elliot Aronson
Elliot Aronson was born in January 1932 and is an American psychologist. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford University in 1959. He has taught at Harvard University, as well as at the universities of Minnesota, Texas and California, Santa Cruz. His research has covered social influence and attitude change, cognitive dissonance and interpersonal attraction. He also invented the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative teaching method designed to help learning while reducing prejudice between ethnic groups. No one else has won all three major awards of the American Psychological Association: for writing (1973), teaching (1980) and research (1999). In 2007 he received the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science. His book in our catalog is Age of Propaganda.