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The Robbers Cave Experiment!

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Contrasting

There are many similarities to the book Lord of the Flies and The Robbers Cave Experiment.

1.)There are are groups.

2.)Each group has a name.

3.)There is fighting but then again there are times where they all get a long.

Resources

http://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html

Phase One

Phase Three

There were two groups that were separately transported and housed in cabins within the same park. Ultimately, the groups must not be aware of the existence of the other group during the first phase of the experiment. Otherwise, any functional contact between the two groups would certainly have unwanted consequences both for the in-group formation and for the later phases of the experiment. It is these two groups that formed the basis of group interaction that is the focus of the Robbers Cave Experiment.

During the first week of the experiment, the groups did not know the existence of the other group. They basically spend time bonding with each other while hiking in the park or swimming. Each group was tasked to coin a group name which was stencilled on their flags and on their shirts.

  • In this part of the experiment they created conflict between the two groups.
  • The first activity for this phase was a problem wherein both the groups must cooperate to solve because the resources. Both of the groups were taken to a new location and were told that they are having drinking water shortage.
  • The two groups had to repair the damage done by vandals to their drinking water supply. During the successful repair of their water problems, cooperation was observed between the members of the two groups.
  • The second activity was the group needed to interact with each other and decide for a movie that they would like to watch.

Background

https://explorable.com/robbers-cave-experiment

  • It can consist of a number of individuals who has a definite status or role relationship with other members of the group.
  • This concept of belonging to a group are several concepts that are vital to the understanding of this experiment. Common attitudes, aspirations, hopes and goals that all the members of a group share are social units that can be referred to as in-groups while all the social units that is not part of the group and all the social units that he cannot relate to is called out-groups.
  • Correspondingly, the relation between two or more in-groups along with its members can be called inter- group relations.

Phase Two

During this phase, the two groups were allowed to find out about the existence of the other group. The chief aim of this phase is the production of conflict between the two groups which can be accomplished by a series of competitive activities in the form of a tournament of events which will yield cumulative scores with a reward for the members of the winning group.

After this the groups refused to eat in the same dining together. The experimenters were so successful at producing friction that they concluded that it was no longer safe to conduct friction-producing activities and phase two was suddenly cut short and phase three commenced.

Muzafer Sherif

Muzafer Sherif was born on July 29, 1906 and passed away on October 16,1988.

Sherif was a founder of modern social psychology.

He developed several unique and interesting techniques for understanding social norms and social conflict.

Other reformulations of social psychology have taken his contributions for granted, and re-presented his ideas as new.

Muzafer Sherif

Comparing the book

While doing this experiment I discovered that the author of Lord of the Flies did an excellent job of bringing the book to life.

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