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Differential Hawthorne Effect By Cueing, Sex, And Relevance, Richard Carl Harris
Differential Hawthorne Effect By Cueing, Sex, And Relevance, Richard Carl Harris
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study attempted to create experimentally the Hawthorne effect in a freshman general psychology class at Utah State University during tall quarter of 1967. It also attempted to discover the differential effect of cueing, sex, and relevance on the experimental creation of the Hawthorne effect as measured by six general psychology criterion tests.
The design of this study included a control group and three experimental groups.
The following five hypotheses were postulated:
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The experimental groups will show greater influence from the Hawthorne effect than the control group.
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Within the three experimental groups there will be an increasing Hawthorne effect with …