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John Henryism is a strategy for coping with prolonged exposure to stresses such as social discrimination by expending high levels of effort, which results in accumulating physiological costs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The John Henry effect is an experimental bias introduced into social experiments by reactive behavior by the control group.. In a controlled social experiment if a control is aware of their status as members of the control group and is able to compare their performance with that of the treatment group, members of the control group may actively work harder to overcome the "disadvantage" of ...
Seán Ó hEinirí (1915–1998), known in English as John Henry, Irish storyteller and known monolingual speaker of the Irish language; Don Marion Davis (1917–2020), American former child actor known as John Henry Jr. John Raymond Henry (1943–2022), American sculptor; John Henry (born c. 1972), American vocalist in the band Darkest Hour
Alexander was born in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 26, 1812. [1] The youngest child of William and Mary (Harwood Stockett) Alexander. [2] His education was acquired in his native city, he was graduated from St. John's College in 1826, and he spent the next four years reading law privately, but apparently he did not take the bar exam. [1]
John Anthony Henry (11 March 1939, Greenwich, England – 8 May 2007) was a professor specialising in toxicology in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. He conducted research on the health effects of cannabis, cocaine and other recreational drugs. [1]
John Henry, who owned 400 acres of uncleared land in the county, joined Syme to help him work the plantation and to learn tobacco-farming methods. He lived and worked there for four years and was the farm manager when Syme was away. [1] Sarah and John had a son, John Syme, Jr., before John Syme died in 1731. [1]
Henry was born in Rotorua on 10 June 1917 to John and Edith Anna Henry. [1] John Henry was a forester and sawmiller and several of his other children would go on to play significant roles in their respective fields in New Zealand — Jack’s older brothers, the Hon. Sir Trevor Henry and Clive Henry, would go on to distinguished legal careers.
John Henry Bryant (1867 – 21 May 1906) was a British physician, and lecturer on materia medica and therapeutics at Guy's Hospital, London. The blue scrotum sign of Bryant is named after him. In 1903 he had given the first description of abdominal and scrotal bruising in a person with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm .