Hawthorne effect

Meaning

Noun

  • A phenomenon whereby a change in the behavior of a subject being studied is an effect of the change itself or the fact of being observed rather than the nature of the change in question.

Origin

  • Coined in 1950 by Henry Landsberger after a 1924-1932 study at the Hawthorne Works.

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