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A company's management team wants to test if playing classical music in a factory will increase worker productivity. For one week, they play the music and have supervisors walk the floor frequently to monitor the workers' output. Productivity increases by 15%. The next week, they continue playing the music but remove the frequent monitoring. Productivity levels return to what they were before the experiment began. Which of the following best explains the initial 15% increase in productivity?
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A company's management team wants to test if playing classical music in a factory will increase worker productivity. For one week, they play the music and have supervisors walk the floor frequently to monitor the workers' output. Productivity increases by 15%. The next week, they continue playing the music but remove the frequent monitoring. Productivity levels return to what they were before the experiment began. Which of the following best explains the initial 15% increase in productivity?
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