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The Robbers Cave Experiment

1954

Overview

Background

The study

Methods

Understanding

Reliability

Ethical Problems.

Background

Muzater Sherif

Social Psychologist

The Study

He is important in understanding the psychological of groups and its members.

His contribution to psychology is known as The Realistic Conflict Theory

A field experiment involving two

groups of twelve year old boys.

All boys were unknown to each other

White middle class

Two-parent protestant background

Each group was an equal balance of physical,mental

and social talents

Stage Three

Co-operation

Resolving conflict

Stage One

In-group formation

Shared goals

Group Bonding

Stage Two

(Mcleon,2008,not paginated)

Team Building

Competitive activities

Conflict

Friction

Tension

The Rattles

The Eagles

Verbal abuse

Vandalism

Theft

(Rice,2013,not paginated)

Violence

Methods

Understanding

Confirms Sherif's Realistic Conflict Theory

Quantitative

Sociometric Analysis

Reduce outward bias,prejudice and discrimination

Socialize with other groups

Work towards a common cause together

Qualitative

Interviews

Quantitative + Qualitative =

A sharper study

Tape Recordings

Ethical Problems

The participants were manipulated

Evaluation

The participants were deceived

Reliability and Validity

The study was artificial

The participants were not protected

against physical or psychological

harm

Mimics conflict across the world

"Conflict is competition"

The sample was bias

(Rice,2013,not paginated)

Competition for scare resources (eg. jobs and land) = a rise in hostility

The researchers were the third group

High ecological validity

(Mcleon,2008,not paginated)

(sociallypsched.org,2014,not paginated)

Bibliography

Age-of-the-sage.org (2015) The Robbers Cave Experiment Muzafer Sherif. [Online] Available from:

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3rd December 2015)

Bennett,B. (2013) Robbers Cave Experiment. [Online] Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QGNxRGgBw (Accessed 3rd December 2015)

Hesse-Biber, S. & Johnson, R. (2015) The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry. New York: Oxford University Press

McLeod,S.A (2008) Robbers Cave. [Online] Available from:http://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html (Accessed 3rd December 2015

Mcneil, E.B (1962) Waging experimental war:a review. Journal of Conflict Resolution,6(1),pp.77-81

Michael, UY (2013) Realistic Conflict Theory (RCT) [Online] Available from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhAvqTa76M (Accessed 4th December)

Rice, K.E (2013) Robber's Cave. [Online] Available from:http://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/robbers_cave.html (Accessed 3rd December 2015)

Sociallypsched.org (2014) Robbers Cave Experiment. [Online] Available from:http://www.sociallypsyched.org/item/robbers-cave-experiment (Accessed 3rd Decemeber 2015)

Sherif, M. (2010) The Robbers Cave Experiment: intergroup conflict and cooperation. Wesleyan;1st Wesleyan ed edition

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