The man who performed this experiment had a student, Franklin Silverman, who later wrote a report about its methods, including an interview with one of its participants, Mary Korlaske Nixon.
The man who performed this experiment had a student, Franklin Silverman, who later wrote a report about its methods, including an interview with one of its participants, Mary Korlaske Nixon. This experiment was also written about by Jim Dyer, who was forced to resign because he unethically posed as a grad student to do research. This experiment was designed to provide evidence for the "diagnosogenic theory" of its formulator, who discussed that theory in his book People in Quandaries. This experiment's 22 participants were divided into those who received "positive therapy" and those who received negative treatment, all of whom were brought to the University of Iowa from the "Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Home." In 2007, its participants were awarded a settlement of $925,000 for emotional damage. For 10 points, name this experiment conducted by Mary Tudor under Wendell Johnson's supervision to understand the origin of stuttering.
The man who performed this experiment had a student, Franklin Silverman, who later wrote a report about its methods, including an interview with one of its participants, Mary Korlaske Nixon.
the "Monster Experiment" or the "Monster Study" [accept descriptions of the experiment that include stuttering before it is mentioned; prompt on answers that do not mention "stuttering" but include one of "Wendell Johnson", "Mary Tudor", "the University of Iowa", or "orphans" before they are mentioned]