The references from all articles appearing in six personality and social psychology journals for the years 1975, 1976, and 1977 were culled for books and articles published before 1958. These publications dated back to the year 1620, but 80o of them were published after 1940 and 58% after 1950. Three publications (Festinger, 1957; Osgood et al., 1957; Festinger, 1954) were heavily cited and characterized as classics. Thirty-seven other books and articles were frequently cited and were considered influential.
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