VALIDATING AND EXPANDING THE HAWTHORNE STUDIES: EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIAN PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Usability Studies and the Hawthorne Effect

This paper provides a brief review of the Hawthorne effect, a discussion of how this effect relates to usability studies, and help for practitioners in defending their studies against criticisms made on the basis of this effect.

How Do Retirees Value Life Annuities? Evidence from Public Employees

Because life annuities can increase the level and decrease the volatility of lifetime consumption, economists have long been puzzled by the low demand for life annuities. One potential rational explanation is that adverse selection drives up life annuity prices, which drives down demand. We study the choice between life annuities and lump sums made by 32,000 retiring public employees. These uni...

The "Hawthorne effect"--what did the original Hawthorne studies actually show?

The "Hawthorne effect" is often mentioned as a possible explanation for positive results in intervention studies. It is used to cover many phenomena, not only unwitting confounding of variables under study by the study itself, but also behavioral change due to an awareness of being observed, active compliance with the supposed wishes of researchers because of special attention received, or posi...

the relationship between efl learners linguistic and logical intelligence and the frequency and types of informal fallacies and evidence in argumentative writing

مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی وجود رابطه ی ممکن میان هوشهای زبانی و منطقی زبان آموزان انگلیسی و تعداد و انواع مغلطه های زبانی و شواهد در متنهای استدلالی آنان انجام پذیرفته است.بدین منظور، 70 زبان آموز با سطح زبانی متوسط به بالا از دو موسسه زبان انگلیسی در ایران انتخاب شده و پرسشنامه های مزبوطه را تکمیل نموده و متنی استدلالی نوشتند. متون نوشته شده مورد بررسی قرار گرفته و نمرات پرسشنامه ها محاسبه شده ...