Experimental Study of the Effect of Evaluative Labeling of Speech Fluency

Description: The Monster Study was designed by Wendell Johnson but conducted under his supervision by his graduate student Mary Tudor. While the study was officially titled “An Experimental Study of the Effect of Evaluative Labeling of Speech Fluency,” it quickly became known as The Monster Study, because so many people considered the experimenters to have acted monstrously. Over the course of four months, starting on January 17, 1939, Tudor provided speech therapy on 22 orphans at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa. Without disclosing the intent of the study, only half of the children were given therapy intended to promote proper speech while the other half were given therapy intended to promote the development of stuttering. The results were never formally published and, in the wake of the human subject experiments performed by the Nazis in WWII, knowledge of this study run in the United States was widely suppressed.

Experiment Psychologist: Wendell Johnson

Related Concept(s): Learning and Conditioning

Location: United States

Began: 1939

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An Angle Board and Hand Usage Study of Stutterers and Non-Stutterers

with Arthur King and Wendell Johnson, 1906-1965, in Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 31 no. 4, October 1942, pp. 293-311 (District of Columbia: American Psychological Association and Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1942, originally published 1942), 19 page(s)

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An Objective Study of the Relationship Between Psychological Factors and the Severity of Stuttering

with Wendell Johnson, 1906-1965 and Max Davis Steer, fl. 1936, in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. 31 no. 1, April 1936, pp. 36-46 (District of Columbia: American Psychological Association and Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1936, originally published 1936), 12 page(s)

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Stutterers' Attitudes Toward Stuttering

with Wendell Johnson, 1906-1965, in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. 29 no. 1, April 1934, pp. 32-44 (District of Columbia: American Psychological Association and Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, originally published 1933), 13 page(s)

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Stuttering and the Concept of Handedness

with Lee Edward Travis and Wendell Johnson, 1906-1965, in Psychological Review, Vol. 41 no. 6, November 1934, pp. 534-562 (Princeton, NJ: Psychological Review Company and Psychological Review, 1934, originally published 1934), 29 page(s)

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