Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi Festinger ne a Brooklyn New York a ranar 8 ga Mayu, 1919 ga 'yan gudun hijirar Yahudawa na Rasha Alex Festinger da Sara Solomon Festinger. Mahaifinsa, mai ƙera kayan ɗinki, "ya bar Rasha ya zama mai tsattsauran ra'ayi kuma bai yarda da wanzuwar Allah ba kuma ya kasance da aminci ga waɗannan ra'ayoyin a dukan rayuwarsa". Festinger ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Boys 'a Brooklyn, kuma ya sami digiri na BS a fannin ilimin halayyar dan adam daga Kwalejin City ta New York a 1939. Ya ci gaba da karatu a karkashin Kurt Lewin a Jami'ar Iowa, inda Festinger ya sami MA a 1940 da PhD a 1942 a fagen halayyar yara. Ta hanyar shigar da kansa, ba shi da sha'awar ilimin halayyar zamantakewa lokacin da ya isa Iowa, kuma bai dauki koyaswar zamantakewa ba a duk lokacin da yake can; a maimakon haka, yana da sha'awar aikin Lewin na farko game da tsarin tashin hankali, amma Lewin ya mayar da hankali ga ilimin zamantakewa a lokacin da Festinger ya isa Iowa. Koyaya, Festinger ya ci gaba da bin abubuwan da yake so na asali, nazarin matakin buri, aiki akan ƙididdiga, haɓaka ƙirar ƙididdigar yanke shawara, har ma da buga nazarin dakin gwaje-gwaje akan beraye. Da yake bayanin rashin sha'awarsa a cikin ilimin halayyar zamantakewa a lokacin, Festinger ya bayyana, "Hanyar da aka fi dacewa da nazarin ilimin halayyar zamantakewa, da kuma rashin daidaituwa na dangantakar bayanai ga ra'ayoyin Lewinian da ka'idoji, duk sun zama ba su da kyau a gare ni a cikin matasan matasan da nake da shi".Bayan kammala karatun, Festinger ya yi aiki a matsayin mai bincike a Iowa daga 1941 zuwa 1943, sannan kuma a matsayin dan kididdiga ga Kwamitin Zaɓin da Horar da Matukan Jirgin Sama a Jami'ar Rochester daga 1943 zuwa 1945 a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu. A cikin 1943, Festinger ya auri Mary Oliver Ballou, mai kunna piano, tare da wanda ya haifi 'ya'ya uku, Catherine, Richard, da Kurt. Festinger da Ballou daga baya sun sake aure, kuma Festinger ya auri Trudy Bradley, a halin yanzu farfesa a fannin aikin zamantakewa a Jami'ar New York, a shekarar 1968.  Tambaya: A ina aka haifi Festinger?
Brooklyn, Birnin New York