Using archival notes and new interviews, Australian psychologist Perry (Behind the Shock Machine) looks at a notable 1954 experiment in Oklahoma’s remote Robbers Cave State Park in her unsatisfying ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This story takes you into the heart of one of social psychology’s most famous experiments. In 1954 at a ...

YOUNG American boys were unwittingly subjected to a cruel and violent ‘Lord of the Flies’ experiment by a controversial psychologist, the details of which are only now being fully revealed. A year ...

Do nice guys really finish last? It’s hard to argue against selfishness and egocentrism when it comes to self-survival. Evolution has us hard wired to see that our genes succeed, and scientists have ...

I begin with a research story, a true one. In the early 1950s, the social psychologist Muzafer Sherif and his colleagues conducted a now-classic experiment, on intergroup conflict and resolution of ...

You may have heard of the experiment carried out in the 1950s by a rogue psychologist called Muzafer Sherif. Sherif and his team put a group of boys together on a camp in the Robbers Cave park and ...

In the early 1950s, a Turkish-American psychologist named Muzafer Sherif conducted a 3-phase study, called the Robbers Cave experiment, that changed how the world saw group dynamics. In this study, ...

As Perry brilliantly describes in her fascin­ating book The Lost Boys, the experiment was a real-life counterpart to William Golding’s now-famous novel Lord of the Flies, which was about to be ...

As Perry brilliantly describes in her fascin­ating book The Lost Boys, the experiment was a real-life counterpart to William Golding’s now-famous novel Lord of the Flies, which was about to be ...