>>tines+D2
Nope!

https://archive.is/tH0il

>>dbgrma+(OP)
This study was a fraud: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x221150878

>>dbgrma+(OP)
It's unclear if this experiment actually happened the way Rosenhan claimed. A journalist went through Rosenhan's archives and tried to verify his story. She managed to track down one of the pseudopatients, who disputed some of Rosenhan's claims such as the amount of preparation, and whether Rosenhan had worked out a legal backup plan in case the institution refused to release the patient.[1] She also noted large discrepancies in various numbers. Apparently she wrote a book about the whole thing, but I haven't had the chance to read it.[2][3]

1. https://sci-hub.red/10.1038/d41586-019-03268-y

2. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/13/777172316/the-great-pretender...

3. https://www.susannahcahalan.com/the-great-pretender

>>tines+D2
I'd say yes. I have a book by Lauren Slater, called 'Opening Skinners Box' in which she researched many psychological experiments of the past, and subjected herself to similar conditions where she could, in an effort to understand better.

The chapter on 'Thud' ended with her visiting a psychiatric hospital of good reputation with an emergency room, she basically said the same things as the researchers in the paper. She was given some anti-psychotics and sent away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_Skinner%27s_Box

>>dbgrma+(OP)
Reminds me of: Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning

>>dbgrma+(OP)
Related. Others?

The Rosenhan Experiment: On Being Sane in Insane Places - >>45785783 - Nov 2025 (1 comment)

On Being Sane in Insane Places (1973) - >>32686098 - Sept 2022 (2 comments)

David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades - >>22155529 - Jan 2020 (119 comments)

Troubling discrepancies in Rosenhan's “On Being Sane in Insane Places”? - >>21437852 - Nov 2019 (16 comments)

On being sane in insane places - >>10885181 - Jan 2016 (1 comment)

On being sane in insane places - >>4371212 - Aug 2012 (2 comments)

Rosenhan experiment (1973) - >>1469370 - June 2010 (2 comments)

>>sddfgv+am
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Please don't create accounts to do this with.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

(We detached this subthread from >>46860103 .)

>>dbgrma+HS
https://spectator.com/article/how-a-fraudulent-experiment-se... Goes over things pretty well - the experiment seems to have been almost completely fraudulent with fabricated or heavily cherry-picked data.

>>TZubir+Lj
To explain this for anyone else like me who hadn't heard the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_citation_advantage

Full Text On the Net = FUTON.

>>dbgrma+(OP)
Grifters gonna grift. No reason to talk about yet another failure in social sciences

https://spectator.com/article/how-a-fraudulent-experiment-se...