Reflecting the many contributions of Muzafer Sherif to social psychology during the past thirty years, this volume presents selections from among Sherif's most widely known essays and provides a systematic overview of his evolving interests, concepts, methods and research findings. Twenty-five essays are divided into five sections according to content; the theoretical and methodological problems at the heart of Sherif's work; the experimental model for interaction process and products; problems of self and reference groups; concepts, attitudes and ego-involvements; and contributions to...
Reflecting the many contributions of Muzafer Sherif to social psychology during the past thirty years, this volume presents selections from among S...
The results of collaborative research on attitudes and attitude change in terms of basic findings and principles from laboratory studies of judgment in general and of assimilation-contrast effects in particular.
The results of collaborative research on attitudes and attitude change in terms of basic findings and principles from laboratory studies of judgmen...
Originally issued in 1954 and updated in 1961 and 1987, this pioneering study of "small group" conflict and cooperation has long been out-of-print. It is now available, in cloth and paper, with a new introduction by Donald Campbell, and a new postscript by O.J. Harvey. In this famous experiment, one of the earliest in inter-group relationships, two dozen twelve-year-old boys in summer camp were formed into two groups, the Rattlers and the Eagles, and induced first to become militantly ethnocentric, then intensely cooperative. Friction and stereotyping were stimulated by a tug-of-war, by...
Originally issued in 1954 and updated in 1961 and 1987, this pioneering study of "small group" conflict and cooperation has long been out-of-print. It...
Interdisciplinary collaboration in the social sciences is obviously essential to scientifi c progress, but discontent and practical diffi culties hinder collaboration in research and training. Many of the problems arise from the failure in the separate disciplines to understand the basis on which collaboration is necessary and possible. In an eff ort to shed light on the situation, these original essays by eminent scholars-economists, geographers, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and others-demonstrate eff ective means of achieving interdisciplinary...
Interdisciplinary collaboration in the social sciences is obviously essential to scientifi c progress, but discontent and practical diffi culties hind...
This book describes and analyzes, from an interdisciplinary point of view, those problems of youth that are currently objects of remedial action on both community and national levels. It explores the many causes of adolescent happiness and discontent, behavior and misbehavior, aspirations and aversions in the rapidly changing patterns of contemporary class, institutional, and cultural settings. It provides practical information for all professionals concerned with adolescent problems and aff ords small comfort to any who hopes for quick results.
This book describes and analyzes, from an interdisciplinary point of view, those problems of youth that are currently objects of remedial action on bo...
Originally published in 1966 the author challenges the accepted theories of group conflict of the time, such as frustration and maladjustment. For him conflict and its accompanying aggressiveness are features of interaction between groups and he supports this theory with a detailed experimental study of controlled groups.
At the time of publication, Dr Otto Klineberg, Director of the International Centre for Intergroup Relations at the Sorbonne wrote: Social scientists everywhere owe a great debt of gratitude to Professor Sherif. The distinguished series of publications for which he and...
Originally published in 1966 the author challenges the accepted theories of group conflict of the time, such as frustration and maladjustment. For ...
![The Robbers Cave Experiment: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation. [Orig. Pub. as Intergroup Conflict and Group Relations] Sherif, Muzafer 9780819561947 Wesleyan University Press](/9780819561947_the_robbers_cave_experiment_intergroup_conflict_and_cooperation_orig_pub_as_intergroup_conflict_and_group_relations.jpg "The Robbers Cave Experiment: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation. [Orig. Pub. as Intergroup Conflict and Group Relations]")
