Word: rosenthall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Rosenthal of the Social Relations Dept. discovered four years ago that rats performed far better when he told experimenters, falsely, that the rats had been specially bred for intelligence.
Rosenthal then substituted teachers for experimenters and school children for rats. He got much the some results.
Rosenthal took a random sampling of first-and-second-grade children at a South San Francisco elementary school, and told teachers that these students would make dramatic gains in school work. His randomly chosen group made those gains, while the rest of the student body did not. Only the teachers...
As a possible competitor for the Post, the Times this week will put a mock-up of a new afternoon paper through a dry run. Dummies of the Times's entry, dated Oct. 1, show a standard-size page comprising only six columns. As yet unnamed, the new paper...
They are John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy; Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government; John Rawls, professor of Philosophy; Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics, Charles Fried, professor of Law; Stephen A. Marglin '59, assistant professor of Economics and coorganizer of the group; Gerald D. Rosenthal, assistant...