Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At the beginning of the experiment, Beverly disliked Gloria because she thought Gloria was "unattractive" and "aggressive." The objective of the test was to discover if Beverly could come to like Gloria simply by being friendly toward her. Directed by the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism, the experiment was...
...another experiment with two Radcliffe girls, Janet, the experimenter's informant, was asked to become friends with Dora even though Dora, as Janet described her, had a "horrible voice", asked "stupid questions", and "did things you wouldn't mind seeing her do in front of a boy, but that you hate to see in front of a girl...
Janet began the experiment by engaging in conversation with her "victim" and after a week concluded that Dora needed only a little "understanding". She had discovered, among other things, that in high school Dora had had a nervous breakdown because of family problems.
The Reward of Productivity. Obviously, much was learned in the Vicos experiment, and the trifling size of the bill to its U.S. participants seemed to point still another lesson. On insistence of the Peruvians, who balked at any drastic ripping of the social fabric of the highlands, Holmberg did not...
When Gurley stepped up to be president in 1944, he continued to experiment, liked to try "something new that'll do it better." Since World War II he has spent a whopping $532 million in capital improvements.