Sherif Robbers Cave Experiment

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Sherif Robbers Cave Experiment

• By Anthony Boyle, Jay Williams, Jose Ibarra, and
  Corey Fillers

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Hypothesis

• The Hypothesis was that if two groups that are
  faced with competition and group frustration will
  result in prejudice and Hostile actions.

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Research Testing

• For the testing they took 22 ,11 year old boys
  and sent them to a summer camp where they were
  divided into 2 groups, the Eagles and rattlers.
  To see how prejudices can interfere with the two
  group.

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Methods

• The researchers observed the two teams interact
  and presented them with competitions, like a
  baseball game and they observed them in the mess
  hall and cabins.

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Results

• They found that they resorted to name-calling and
  vandalizing of each others cabins and flag. They
  found that group naturally own ideas and formed
  prejudice about the other group. But then they
  gave both groups a single task where they found
  that both goals worked together to fix the
  problem.