The Great Pretender: Jordan Reynolds Cohen's Fake Persona Unmasked

Web'destined to become a popular and important book' jon ronson 'fascinating' sunday times in the early 1970s, stanford professor dr rosenhan conducted an.

Webhe operates as a robin hood of sorts, only targeting the corrupt and criminal, who obtain their wealth by unrepentantly harming honest people, for his scams;

Webwas it a social psychology experiment based on deception?

Or was it more an ethnographic immersion study of institutional and professional practices?

In search of an answer, in the 1970s a.