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Recall that Sherif and his colleagues (1961) created conflict between two groups of boys in a summer camp. Intergroup hostility was relatively easy to generate. To do this, the researchers first __________ and then __________.

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COMPETITION STAGE AND FRUSTRATION

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Muzaffar sheriff was a famous social psychologist who has given the psychological understanding of groups and their members. He has given a realistic conflict theory and accounts for group negative perception for another group, prejudice, hatred, stereotypes being the result of competition and aggression among the group. The sheriff stated his theory in one of the famous experiment called the robber's cave. however, this study has been criticized at many points in the experiments, for example as the two groups were on artificial competition which was not in real life. The competition spreads a plaque among the group which was not appreciated.

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