'Changes in performance or other behaviour result from people knowing that they are the subject of study'. This statement describes a phenomenon called:
A) the Hawthorne effect.
B) the Halo effect.
C) the Self-other effect.
D) the Frederick Taylor effect.

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While serious research design flaws were later identified in the Hawthorne Studies (Landsberger, 1958) and some of the original conclusions have been challenged (Parsons, 1992), the studies have resulted in the widely cited concept of the Hawthorne effect, in which changes in performance or other behaviour result from people knowing that they are the subject of study.

'Changes in Performance or Other Behaviour Result from People Knowing