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A real-life Lord of the Flies: the troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
[Muzafer Sherif was a social psychologist in the 1950s who] became obsessed by group dynamics: how individuals band together to form cohesive units and how these units can find themselves at each other’s throats.
Early in 1953, the Rockefeller Foundation gave Sherif $38,000 – $350,000 (£245,000) in today’s money – to carry out what he hoped would be a career-defining piece of research. This time there would be no rats: the subjects were 11-year-olds, and neither they nor their parents had any idea what they were signing up for.
ARTICLE You can read more background about the findings of the experiments HERE.
