There's a phenomenon called the Hawthorne effect: we change our behavior just by being aware that we're being watched.

有一个现象叫做“霍索恩效应”：因为意识到受到关注，所以我们会不自觉的改变自己的行为。

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For something so influential and intuitively appealing, it turns out that the Hawthorne effect is remarkably hard to pin down.

作为一个如此具有影响力以及从直觉上引人入胜的理论，“ Hawthorne ”效应却显得异常难以证实。

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Instead, the studies ended up giving their name to the "Hawthorne effect", the extremely influential idea that the very act of being experimented upon changes subjects' behaviour.

这些研究以一个被他们命名为“ Hawthorne ”效应的结论结束，这个在当时十分具有影响力的结论告诉我们，仅仅是被实验就足以使实验客体的行为发生改变。

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For something so influential and intuitively appealing, it turns out that the Hawthorne effect is remarkably hard to pin down.

ECONOMIST: Being watched may not affect behaviour, after all

This could be interpreted as a subtler version of the Hawthorne effect, if you believe that workers were aware that changes in artificial light were induced by the experimenters, whereas natural light was changing on its own.

ECONOMIST: Being watched may not affect behaviour, after all