The Hawthorne effect is a type of human behavior reactivity

By merely being in the room, the devices will monitor students’ behavior in the same way that the cameras and switches and lab coats did in Milgram’s experiments.

participants in a university graduate course

participants in a university graduate course

The challenge, of course, is how to balance concerns of the Hawthorne effect with privacy.

they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom.

But Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting.

What God doth the wizard pray to?”

Whether Faith obeyed, he knew not. Hardly had he spoken, when he found himself amid calm night and solitude, listening to a roar of the wind, which died heavily away through the forest. He staggered against the rock, and felt it chill and damp, while a hanging twig, that had been all on fire, besprinkled his cheek with the coldest dew.

who had received the devil’s promise to be queen of hell

But, where is Faith

or he recognized a score of the church-members of Salem village, famous for their especial sanctity

Each pendent twig and leafy festoon was in a blaze.

He paused, in a lull of the tempest that had driven him onward, and heard the swell of what seemed a hymn, rolling solemnly from a distance, with the weight of many voices. He knew the tune; it was a familiar one in the choir of the village meeting-house.

and the yell of Indians

My Faith is gone!

and beheld a pink ribbon.

With Heaven above, and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil!

It vexed him the more, because he could have sworn, were such a thing possible, that he recognized the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin

Friend

said the young man

he fat of a new-born babe

The devil!

and abide no such wickedness.

We have been a race of honest men and good Christians,

the goodman,

Take my staff, if you are so soon weary.”

which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought, that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.

and bearing a considerable resemblance to him

“What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!”

devilish Indian

dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.

she’s a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night, I’ll cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven.”

said Faith, with the pink ribbons,

My love and my Faith

When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!”

he became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin. His converts always regarded him with a dread peculiar to themselves, affirming, though but figuratively, that, before he brought them to celestial light, they had been with him behind the black veil.

he should be affrighted by himself.

bugbear.

only a material emblem had separated him from happiness

“And do you feel it then, at last?” said he mournfully.

Beloved and respected as you are, there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret sin.

No mortal eye will see it withdrawn.

pronouncing the matter too weighty to be handled, except by a council of the churches, if, indeed, it might not require a general synod.

It was remarkable that of all the busybodies and impertinent people in the parish, not one ventured to put the plain question to Mr. Hooper, wherefore he did this thing.

Such was its immediate effect on the guests that a cloud seemed to have rolled duskily from beneath the black crape, and dimmed the light of the candles.

A superstitious old woman was the only witness of this prodigy

It was now an appropriate emblem.

Strange and bewildered looks repaid him for his courtesy.

Each member of the congregation, the most innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, felt as if the preacher had crept upon them, behind his awful veil, and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or thought.

that more than one woman of delicate nerves was forced to leave the meeting-house.

Did he seek to hide it from the dread Being whom he was addressing?

But Mr. Hooper appeared not to notice the perturbation of his people.

“He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face.” “Our parson has gone mad!” cried Goodman Gray, following him across the threshold.

“Are you sure it is our parson?”

fancied that the Sabbath sunshine made them prettier than on week days.