Muzafer Sherif

with no structure of authority, the only people who can create and enforce rules is them. It is much easier for a person to fall into their base instincts when they are faced in a survival situation where there is not an authority that enforces laws. Not to mention, the characters in “Lord of the Flies” are impressionable children. In Oklahoma an experiment called The Robbers Cave Experiment, twenty-two boys were let loose in a deserted scout camp in the Robbers Cave State Park by a team of psychologists headed by Muzafer and Carolyn Sherif. The results of the experiment are described here: The researchers pretended to be camp staff and janitors, and melted into the background. The boys were divided into two groups before arriving: later called the "Rattlers" and the "Eagles".In phase one of the experiment, each group was left alone for a week of camping, hiking and swimming. Both established their own hierarchies, unaware of the other group's existence.Then Sherif allowed them to hear the other group in the distance, which sparked immediate signs of rivalry and territorialism in both groups. The announcement by the staff of a tournament between the two tribes caused even greater hostility: as soon as they set eyes on each other, the insults started to fly. After losing an early contest, the Eagles dispensed with their complacent leader; a more aggressive boy seized power and immediately threatened to beat up anyone on his own team who didn't take the competition seriously.…

themselves to only the positive aspects of life, rationalizing decisions, thereby avoiding uncertainty and the risk that follows. It has become the norm to chase security, safety and avoid the unknown in relation to life choices. The dating apps today are trying to come up with algorithms that make it safer for the individual to ‘fall’ in love, to have the security of a blanket when ‘falling’ in love and likewise with other life altering decisions wherein the future cannot be predicted. In such…

resources, this will lead to conflict, negative stereotypes and beliefs, and discrimination between the groups”(Mcleod). When two or more groups seek the same resources - such as food or money - they tend to view the other groups as a threat of blocking them from obtaining the resources. The competition over the same limited resources will result in negative beliefs on the others and possibly even verbal or physical conflict with the other group. Famous psychologist Muzafer Sherif conducted an…

one’s position or inconsistent. The same is true of individual’s facing change. They go through a process of becoming aware of other’s perception of the need for change, may talk with others, explore the “right or wrong” of other’s and their own thinking, but they eventually choose a path and pursue either change or maintaining their current status, or position. I find that at this point, either in conflict or change, once a position is determined to be “right or wrong” the idea of…

further advanced the area was Muzafer Sherif, a Turkish-American social psychologist who made a progression in social judgment theory and conflict theory. Muzafer was born on July 29, 1905 in Muzzaffer Serif Basoglu and died on October 16, 1988 in Fairbanks, Alaska at the age of eighty-two from a heart attack (Harvey, 1989). During Sherif’s early years, he attended an elementary school for six years and enrolled at Izmir International College, where he had attended until he decided to attend…

He later changed his name to Muzafer Sherif before he came to the United States. In 1927 he earned a B.A. at the American International College and later at the University of Istanbul he obtained his first M.A. Murafer Sherif moved to America in 1932 where he obtained his second master at the Harvard University. After listening to lectures under Kohler in Berlin, in 1935 Sherif presented his research: Some Social Factor in Understanding and later achieved his Doctoral at the Columbia University…

my own views. Some of the questions I asked myself about the NYU study by John Bargh, the 1971 Stanford Prison Study by Zimbardo, the 1961 Yale study by Stanley Milgram, and the 2003 study by Dacher Keltner: How can I work on myself to root out these tendencies that would cause me to abuse power or judge others? Concerning the 1998 Harvard and Kent State university study: How can I be more accurate in my observations? Considering the 1959 experiment by Leon Festinger: How can I learn to accept…

Muzafer Sherif was a highly regarded Turkish-American social psychologist who has been deemed one of the respected founders of modern social psychology. Over the course of his career, Sherif has received an unsurmountable amount of awards in recognition for this contributions to social psychology. For example, he was awarded the Scientific Contribution Award (1968) and was the first person to receive the Cooley-Mead award. Sherif also developed several intriguing and powerful techniques for…

- conflicting or harmonious nature of their relations RCT was present in a classical social psychology experiment, commonly known as ‘Robbers Cave’ conducted by: MUZAFER SHERIFF AND COLLEAGUES (1954) * Studied group behaviour * -researcher carefully observed the behaviours of the children * Reason – to learn how group conflict developed and how it might be resolved among the children This was identified through 3 stages * group formation * intergroup conflict: group…

This study investigates the evil side of human nature. William Golding’s world famous novel “Lord of the Flies”, discusses the loss of innocence of a group of young schoolboys, and the nature of evil that lies within all the humanity. Is evil a part of the human nature, or is it something developed within the human mentality, as a consequence of improper upbringing by individuals, or maybe the society’s boundaries for human expression and personal development. No human is supposedly born evil,…