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| 29 Aug 2012 08:47 AM |
In the summer of 1954, social psychologist Muzafer Sherif wanted to see if two groups stuck in the wild would learn to hate each other. What else was there to do but try it?
Thus kicked off his Robbers Cave experiment, in which a group of 11 ordinary, middle-class 11-year-old boys headed to summer camp at Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma, anxious for three fun-filled weeks of hiking, fishing and swimming. They were completely unaware that their parents had signed them up for Sherif's experiment, and that there was a second group of campers elsewhere on the site that they would be trained to hate.
For the first week, the groups were kept apart and encouraged to participate in separate team-building events and activities, in order to form relationships within each group. They established their own hierarchy and elected leaders, and gave their groups names -- the Eagles and the Rattlers, because it was the 1950s. Each group even designed flags to represent themselves. Then, once each group had formed a close-knit bond, the Eagles and the Rattlers conveniently "discovered" each other, and both sides approached the situation with, well violence.
Long story short, around half of the children died tragic deaths, for science, yes, the scientists kind of expected this to happen and were prepared for it, but conveniently never told the parents this when they signed the waiver. |
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ThaChef
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| 29 Aug 2012 08:55 AM |
lol
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| 29 Aug 2012 08:55 AM |
| Are you sure that isn't the script for the hunger games in a different time period? |
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| 29 Aug 2012 09:10 AM |
Seems Legit.
--- The Official Old Man of OT |
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tnt91
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| 29 Aug 2012 09:11 AM |
| this is an obvious lie ,, but if it was real ,, it would be for the greater good ! |
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