Real-life Lord of the Flies

• Autores: Gina Perry
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3165, 2018, págs. 41-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Perry features about Muzafer Sherif's classic experiment on children that held up as proof that waging war comes naturally to us. But there's more to this story than meets the eye. Among other things in the summer of 1954, a bus pulled into Robbers Cave State Park in the mountains of rural Oklahoma. The dozen 11-year-old boys on board, all of them strangers to each other, craned to catch a glimpse through the dusty windows of what for most of them was their first summer camp. Social psychologist Muzafer Sherif and his team, disguised as camp counsellors, watched each group bond and form its own identity. The two groups named themselves the Rattlers and the Eagles, each with flag, anthem, dress code, leaders and followers, as well as shared rules and standards. Gradually, each group became aware of the other: when the Rattlers discovered some empty cups in their hideout and heard the sounds of others playing on the baseball field, they began to resent the interlopers.