Realistic Conflict Theory: The Psychology of War and Peace

In the summer of 1954, a school bus with a group of 12-year old boys arrived at Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma. The boys thought they were going camping. Their parents at home believed the sponsored trip had something to do with leadership. None of them knew that they were actually part of a controversial experiment on realistic conflict resolution.

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Read about Lutfy Diab, who repeated the experiment with 18 boys from Beirut. The 'Blue Ghost' and 'Red Genies' groups each contained 5 Christians and 4 Muslims. Fighting soon broke out, not Christian vs Muslim but Blue vs Red.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lutfy_Diab&action=edit&redlink=1

Read about social judgment theory, a self-persuasion theory proposed by Carolyn Sherif, Muzafer Sherif, and Carl Hovland.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-persuasion

Read more about realistic conflict theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory

Watch original photography footage from the camp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9DyGsuvIPo

SOURCES
Realistic conflict theory - Wikipedia.org
Muzafer Sherif - Wikipedia.org
Carolyn Sherif - Wikipedia.org
Mcleod, S. (2008). Robbers Cave Experiment / Realistic Conflict Theory - Simply Psychology.
The robbers cave experiment Muzafer Sherif - Age-of-the-sage.org

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