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The field experiment involved two groups of twelve-year-old boys at Robber’s Cave State Park, Oklahoma, America. The twenty-two boys in the study were unknown to each other and all from white middle-class backgrounds. They all shared a Protestant, two-parent background. The boys were randomly divided by the …
The Robbers Cave experiment studied how hostilities quickly developed between two groups of boys at a summer camp. The researchers were later able to reduce the tensions between the two groups by having them work …
Psychologist Muzafer Sherif suggested that conflict between groups was the result of competition for limited resources. To put this theory to the test, he conducted a series of experiments that are today referred to as the Robbers …
In an effort to test one of his theories on social behavior, psychologist Muzafer Sherif released 22 twelve-year-old boys into a sparsely supervised wilderness camp — and then covertly provoked them to fight each …
Muzafer Sherif’s Summer Camp Study, also widely known as the Robbers Cave experiment (Sherif et al., 1961), is a classic study in psychology. Performed over a three-week period in 1954 ...
In the 1954 experiment, "22 white, fifth grade, 11 year old boys with average-to-good school performance and above average intelligence with a protestant, two parent background were …
The Robbers Cave Experiment was a classic study conducted by psychologist Muzafer Sherif and his colleagues in 1954. It aimed to investigate intergroup relations and conflict. The experiment involved boys at a summer …
by Muzafer Sherif were Marvin B. Sussman, Robert Hunt ington, O. J. Harvey, B. Jack White, Wil liam R. Hood and Carolyn W. Sherif. The experiments were conducted in 1949, 1953 and 1954; …