In Rosenhan's Experiment in Which He and Several Colleagues Had

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True/False

In Rosenhan's experiment in which he and several colleagues had themselves committed to mental hospitals with a diagnosis of "schizophrenia," the staff at the hospital never recognized these phony patients as "phony," although the real patients did see through their pretense.

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