Not Your Average Summer Camp by Marisa Brook
They would be pitted against each other in a lengthy tournament of sports and other challenges; the winner would be awarded a medal and a pocketknife. The psychologists’ aim was to prompt each team to see the other as an ‘enemy’ of sorts, and test the second part of the hypothesis.
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Overall, the experiment was seen as a success. Not only had both aspects of Sherif’s hypothesis been verified, but several further conclusions had been reached.
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
“In people, kissing to express affection is almost universal. About 90 percent of human cultures do it…”