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How The Rosenhan Experiment Worked

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One Flu or the Cuckoo's Nest

There was no major, you know, noticeable effect of institutionalization that could have accounted for people mistaking them as having schizophrenia or something. The more sane they were, which was to say, same appearing, the more that was looked at as a symptom of schizophrenia. They would act completely normal, be super friendly, and very cooperative, and sort of like the writing behavior thing. When they looked at these notes, they would indicate this cooperation, or just good sense sometimes to do things as part of their problem.

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