In his investigation designed to examine the effects of labeling people as "abnormal," David Rosenhan and seven other sane people gained admission to psychiatric hospitals by pretending to have hallucinations. Once these "pseudopatients" were admitted, all of the following happened EXCEPT that

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Rosenhan's study found that despite behaving normally after admission, the pseudopatients were not immediately discharged as sane. Instead, their normal behaviors were often seen through the lens of their initial diagnoses, illustrating the impact of diagnostic labels on perception.

In His Investigation Designed to Examine the Effects of Labeling