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Hawthorne effect
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☆ Hawthorne effect
improvement in performance, as by workers or students, resulting from mere awareness that experimental attempts are being made to bring about improvement
Etymology: after the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Co. in Cicero, Ill., where studies of worker performance were made in 1927
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