The lost boys : inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment

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The lost boys : inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment

Title remainder

inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment

Statement of responsibility

Gina Perry

Title variation

lost boys

Title variation remainder

inside Muzafer Sherifs Robbers Cave experiments

Creator

• truePerry, Gina

Author

• truePerry, Gina

Subject

• Case studies
• trueChild psychology
• trueExperiments
• trueHuman behavior
• trueHuman experimentation in medicine
• trueHuman experimentation in psychology
• Intergroup relations -- Case studies
• trueOklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Fictoin
• truePrediction (Psychology)
• Sherif, Muzafer, 1906-1988
• Small groups -- Case studies
• trueSocial groups
• Social interaction -- Case studies
• trueSocial psychology
• Social psychology -- Experiments | History
• trueUnited States -- History
• University of Oklahoma, Institute of Group Relations
• truePsychology
• Behaviorism (Psychology) -- Moral and ethical aspects

Genre

• trueCase studies
• trueFictoin

Language

eng

Summary

In 1954, a group of American boys attended a remote summer camp where they were split into two groups, and encouraged to bully, harass, and demonize each other. The results would make history as one of social psychology’s classic studies, and one of the most controversial: the Robbers Cave experiment. Conducted at the height of the Cold War, the experiment officially had a happy ending: the boys reconciled, and psychologist Muzafer Sherif demonstrated that while hatred and violence are powerful forces, so too are cooperation and harmony. Today it is proffered as proof that under the right conditions warring groups can make peace. Yet the true story of the experiments is far more complex, and more chilling. In The Lost Boys, Gina Perry explores the experiment and its consequences, tracing the story of Sherif, a troubled outsider who struggled to craft an experiment that would vanquish his personal demons. Drawing on both on archival material and new interviews with the subjects, now in their 70s and none aware that the summer camps they’d attended had in fact been experimental ruses, Perry pieces together a story of drama, mutiny, and intrigue that has never been told before

Tone

• trueImpartial
• trueThought-provoking

Dewey number

302

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

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no index present

LC call number

HM

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography