1. Elliot Aronson was born on January 9,1932 and 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.
Elliot Aronson 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.
Elliot Aronson officially retired in 1994 but continues to teach and write.
Elliot Aronson grew up in extreme poverty in Revere, Massachusetts, during the Great Depression.
Elliot Aronson's was the only Jewish family in the neighborhood, and it was not rare for Aronson to be bullied on the way home from Hebrew school by anti-Semitic gangs.
Elliot Aronson believes that every life's progress is based on a combination of luck, opportunity, talent, and intuition.
Elliot Aronson went on to earn a master's degree from Wesleyan University in 1956, where he worked with David McClelland, and a Ph.
Elliot Aronson has taught at Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Elliot Aronson served as distinguished visiting professor at Stanford University.
Elliot Aronson was included in a list of the 100 most influential psychologists of the 20th century published by the Review of General Psychology.
Elliot Aronson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and won the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science for his lifetime achievements.
Elliot Aronson's honors include distinguished research awards from the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
Elliot Aronson won the Gordon Allport Prize for his work on reducing prejudice.
Elliot Aronson refined the theory, which posits that when attitudes and behaviors are inconsistent, psychological discomfort results.
Elliot Aronson led the development of a classroom technique for defusing inter-group tension and promoting self-esteem.
Elliot Aronson, then at the University of Texas, was called in as a consultant by a school administrator who was a former student.
Elliot Aronson noticed that the schools' highly competitive atmosphere was exacerbating the already tense ethnic rivalry.
In 1965, Elliot Aronson proposed that interpersonal attraction and liking could be understood in terms of the balance of reward and cost.
Elliot Aronson published a paper in 1966, where he described an experiment testing the effects of a simple blunder on perceived attraction.
In 2000, Elliot Aronson was diagnosed with macular degeneration and, by 2003, had lost all of his central vision.
Elliot Aronson graduated from the program on February 12,2011.
Elliot Aronson has written more than twenty books, including textbooks, popularizations and one book of children's fiction with his granddaughter Ruth Elliot Aronson.