University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA Marc Gellman Section Editor information Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University & Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, CIUSSS-NIM: Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada ...
Because this phenomenon was documented and widely publicized after some studies on increasing productivity carried out at the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric company, it is sometimes referred to as the Hawthorne effect. To counter this effect, industrial experiments often make use of a ...