The conflict was reduced in the Robbers Cave experiment by both teams, The Rattlers and The Eagles, coming together to solve a common problem. The problem in this case was a lack of water supply. The working together of the two groups neutralized the hostility by fostering understanding of the other. The logic behind this intervention was that working together builds trust and leads to dissolving some of the dissonance between one group and the other.
The Stanford prison experiment helped social scientists to better understand the conditions that promote brutal behaviors by shifting the blame from the individual to the social conditions that individual was in. Zimbardo’s experiment incorporated role theory in that identity and conditions of
The Stanford prison experiment helped social scientists to better understand the conditions that promote brutal behaviors by shifting the blame from the individual to the social conditions that individual was in. Zimbardo’s experiment incorporated role theory in that identity and conditions of