How Can A Nurturing Environment Reduce Bias, Prejudice and Conflict Between Groups?
The classic experiment that shows this happened in the 1950s, the Robbers Cave study (Sherif, Harvey, Hood, Sherif, & White, 1988). An excellent 3-minute video summarizes how this classic experiment worked, which you can view at http://bit.ly/robbers-cave. Now that study happened more than 60 years ago with some middle-class boys in state park by the name of Robbers Cave in Oklahoma. The experiment happened in three stages: Stage one: The boys were randomly assigned to two groups, and never knew about the other group for a week. During the first week, each “team” (self named as the Rattlers or the Eagles),…
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