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Bem is perhaps best known for his theory of "self-perception" as the most oft-cited competitor to Leon FestingerLeon Festinger (born May 8, 1919 February 11, 1989) was a social psychologist from New York City who became famous for his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Festinger earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York in 1939. After com's cognitive dissonance theory. According to the self-perception account, people infer their attitudes from their own behavior much as an outside behavior might, so a person asked to give a pro- Fidel CastroFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has ruled Cuba since 1959, when, as part of the 26th of July Movement, he helped overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista and turn Cuba into the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere. He hel speech would subsequently view themselves as being more in favor of Castro.
He is also known in parapsychologyParapsychology is the study of mental phenomena, whether actual or purported, that are not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. Types of parapsychology The phenomena in question fall into two broad groups. Extra- for his defense of the ganzfeld experimentThe ganzfeld ("total field") experiment uses audio and visual sensory deprivation to test for extra-sensory perception (ESP). There are claims that this experiment yields results that deviate significantly from randomness, and represent some of the strong as empirical evidence of a mild, but significant "psi", more commonly known as psychic, phenomenon.