American psychologist and legal scholar best known for a single, widely debated study of psychiatric diagnosis.
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BirthplaceJersey City, New Jersey, U.S. 1 Death PlacePalo Alto, California, U.S. 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionConducted the 1973 Rosenhan experiment, sending healthy pseudopatients into twelve psychiatric hospitals to test whether staff could distinguish sane people from those genuinely diagnosed as disordered; the study's own methodology was challenged decades later. 2 Notable WorkOn Being Sane in Insane Places (1973) 1 Connections
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His On Being Sane in Insane Places study is a landmark critique of psychiatric diagnostic validity central to abnormal psychology.
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Palo Alto, California, U.S.
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was an American psychologist
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In 1973, Rosenhan published "On Being Sane In Insane Places", which describes what is now known as the Rosenhan experiment.
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The study was arranged by psychologist David Rosenhan, a Stanford University professor, and published by the journal Science in 1973
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