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The Hawthorne effect was originally defined in an industrial setting: The Hawthorne Works Plant was studied by researchers at Harvard University who were trying to determine the relationship between ...

You may have heard this referred to as the Hawthorne effect, after research at the eponymous production plant which found that workers’ productivity in a factory improved regardless of the actual ...