Chapter 3: Robbers Cave, or how to get preteen boys to act like macho jerks

Muzafer Sherif was a social psychologist who believed that given a common goal, all individuals could work together in peace.

To provide evidence for his theory, he took a group of 11-year-old boys to an overnight camp and made them sworn enemies. Then he and his team would flip the script by starting a forest fire so the boys could come together and extinguish the blaze.

What could possibly go wrong?