The "Robbers Cave" experiment was a total fraud, just like virtually everything else I learned in intro psychology in 2008. He didn't get the results he wanted with the first group of kids, who made friends instead of fighting, so he did a "do-over."https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/16/a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies-the-troubling-legacy-of-the-robbers-cave-experiment …
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The Robber Cave's experiment has a very practical implication: make sure you show up on time for orientation groups, in college or elsewhere, because otherwise you might never get included in the social networks that formed during the first few days.
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Although that's not the answer the experimenters wanted to find, and it's not the lesson the experiment is used to teach.
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