sheriff et al (1954-61)

Question 1

what were the aims of the study?

Answer 1

to investigate relations n groups
to see if strangers that were brought together with common goals would form a close gourd
to see if bringing two groups together into contact and competition would create hostility
to see if hostility could be reduced

Question 2

who were the participants?

Answer 2

22 11 year old boys from Oklahoma
protistan middle class
didn’t know echoer before

Question 3

what were the boys matched on?

Answer 3

iq and sporting abaility

Question 4

how much were parents paid and why?

Answer 4

$25 to not come and visit them

Question 5

what happened at each stage?

Answer 5

boys were observed by and behaviour was recorded

also tape reordings

Question 6

what were observers trained to do?

Answer 6

to no influence the boys in any way

Question 7

how many stages were there?

Answer 7

3

Question 8

what happened in stage 1

Answer 8

boys lived seperatly and first five days they were each given bonding tasks
status and roles were observed
after 1 week the boys were made aware of other group

Question 9

how long till boys knew about the other groups?

Answer 9

one week

Question 10

what happened at stage two?

Answer 10

a tournement was set up as soon as they were made aware of each other
swimmming baseball and tug of war
boys created their own basketball tournement
bean experiment

Question 11

what was the bean experiment?

Answer 11

where boys collected beans and the other group had t try and estimate how many beans they had
won a prize

Question 12

what games were in the tournament?

Answer 12

swimming baseball and tug of war

Question 13

what happened in sateg 3?

Answer 13

groups were brought together to communicate
joint problem solving activities with superordinate goals
pooling money to watch a film
vandals who had blocked water pipe work togethr to unblock

Question 14

what were examples of super ordinate goals?

Answer 14

pooling money together for a film

vandals

Question 15

what was the results in stage one?

Answer 15

gave themselves names 
eagles and rattlers 
showed instant dislike when made aware 
eagles wanted a competition 
rattlers better not swim in out hole

Question 16

what was found in stage 2?

Answer 16

competition increased hostility 
calling names such as sissies 
nearly physical violence 
93% ingroup friends 
eagles refused to eat with them 
raided huts

Question 17

what was found in stage 3?

Answer 17

bringing groups togetrh not enough to reduce hostility
movie ‘ladies first’
tasks did reduce hostility but not completely
rattlers spent $5 on drinks for both
in group friends 63.6 %

Question 18

what was in-group friends in stage 2?

Answer 18

93%

Question 19

what was in-group friends in stage 3?

Answer 19

63.6%

Question 20

what were the overall conclusions?

Answer 20

competition is not needed for hostility
cooperatuve tasks can reduce hostility but canot eliminate it
in gorup over estimate ingorup and under estimate outgroup