Hawthorne effect noun phr. ['hɔ:Ɵɔ:n ɪ'fɛkt] M20.[from the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company in Chicago, Ill., where first observed in the 1920s.]Psychology. The alteration of behaviour by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed.
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