Rosenhan experiment

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The Rosenhan experiment or Thud experiment was a study regarding the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. For the experiment, participants submitted themselves for evaluation at various psychiatric institutions and feigned hallucinations in order to be accepted, but acted normally from then onward.

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