yes!!! on an anthropological level, exploiting or tribal need to have an enemy. most are more tactful with it. but trump was out in the open with it. and the scary thing is people ate it up like it was the most delicious thing ever. not realizing they were being manipulated hook line and sinker.
I agree. It's ironic that the research is not revisited. The fact that these boys had multiple factors in common expedite the experiment. When you examine the occurrences of society. Yes, the experiment was engineered. However, it's a stepping stone into addressing a larger problem.
Basically the idea of this experiment was studying ways in which prejudice and discrimination could be formed- Sherif deduced that people are most likely to favour their in-group members over people who didn't belong in their group (which proves social identity theory). He found out that the boys were shouting derogatory terms at the opposite teams but Sherif also realised that with the introduction of superordinate goals (goals where they had to work together) it reduced prejudice and discrimination. Thus proving the idea of realistic conflict theory. However, this study wasn't seen as ethically correct as it doesn't follow the ethical guidelines like the families didn't know about the study so they technically didn't get their consent and it's also not generalisable considering Sherif only worked with 11 year old boys so we can't assume that women and older men are going to act in the same way.
I was literally like how is everyone comparing a group of children being manipulated by an adult to adults being manipulated by politicians there isn't really a sound link between the two things.
Just look at the History of Greece and you will get all the aswers you want . In ancient greece all the city states were at war with eachother then they unite because the Persians attack then they return back to civil war
Most cities became vassals of the Persians. If you search carefully you will see that only a few decided to put up resistance. Most unifications became through power struggle: Athenian hegemony over Greece Macedonian hegemony over Greece Mongol tribeS unification by genkis khan Arab tribes unification by Mohammed Frankish tribes unification by Clovis
This is how African governments pit different tribes against eachother in order to keep the people weak and divided. This is exactly what is happening in my country Uganda.
As a tribal person this is very common manipulation where they pit you against the other tribal groups or foster animosity with the general dominant population. Stay safe brother
Honestly, if I was a dictator and I wanted to stay in charge, I'd either pit the people against each other, or pit them against the people of another country. This way none of them are paying attention to me.
Musevini has used divide and rule technique to rule Uganda for over 3 decades and it has worked well for him. He gets away with constitutional changes that favour his grip on power because majority tribes are too busy fighting amongst themselves to realise that there are enough resources for everyone to prosper but the dictator manipulates resource supply to keep his loyalists rich and the rest poor.
Not just there my flow human, its everywhere. The powerful fear the common class, that's how they stay in power. By dividing the commoners against one another...
My great grandfather told me about how a kid from his town was put into this experiment and how no one in town like ever saw that kid again it was weird as heck
This subject got me thinking about the Chimpanzee War of 1974-1978. One group split into two groups and eventually they both started fighting. It's fascinating and scary when you consider the fact that we are closely related to these apes.
The same happens with ants. When their colony get to big they start sub colonies and when that got big enough they split up and turn against each other basically becoming a new colony. I know this from kurzgezagt channel he has videos on it so go their for the proper and actually fun videos.
Not going crazy yet. All we need is to test you to see what makes you tick and with the right button presses in the right order even the most sane among us will become completely lost.
It actually make you violent mostly if you are playing an online game where you sometimes rage quit or throw your mobile in bed or scream. I know this bcuz I was a free fire and pubg addicted
Not all boomers. Some, very few remember the things that the hippies did for us. Peace and love are not the punchline of some joke, they are states of being that we should all aspire to.
He tainted his own experiments results by having adults facilitate the behavioral outcome he was seeking. His reaction during his first failure makes it seem less about science and more about fulfilling his own desire to manipulate others.
0:25 this event did not inspired the lord of the flies. William Golding wrote because of his experience in WW2 and it’s horrors and he wondered if things like the concentration camps were an isolated incident or something that could happen again, along with his experience teaching unruly boys when he was a teacher. He wrote it as a parody of coral island and what he believed would happened if young boys were on a deserted island alone with no adults.
I wonder if Mr. Sherif saw/heard about the blue/brown eye experiment on school children. Imagine if he lived long enough and saw so many "reality"/game shows up to today. XD
Learning about bad science.. The mad scientist was RIGHT when picking kids from the 'same' 'ethno-racial & religious' population. Infographics show has no idea about experimental science.. He was WRONG for having no real 'control group'. Infographics show left this very obvious idea out of the commentary..
@@LeHyperTech Doesn’t mean he’s still not learning. Wrong or not there’s a wide range of information here. and if intrigued enough you’re able to look it up on your own. He may have never heard of this story if it wasn’t for Infograhpics. Right or Wrong, the base of the story is correct and follows his thoughts and ideals. All we needed
Except in this case it obviously didn't. The dude and his staff had done constant interference to drive the experiment towards the results he wanted using a small nondiverse sample size. So no insight was actually gained all he did was torment and manipulate a bunch of young boys. Unethical practices are no more or less likely to produce insight. Whether insight/information is produced depends on other factors beyond ethical or not.factors such as sample size and diversity, how much interference happens, and whether or not the same or similar results can be repeated by the same or similar experiments without forcing the results to match up
Definitely a very flawed "experiment", seemed to be more of a test to see how far they could go with manipulating children into doing things, which is not really anything scientific, considering people do it every day, often leading to a very bad experience for the children involved...
They all looked like girls in the beginning, love the videos, always been a fan, I’m just being a stickler. Keep up the good work, you have an very soothing voice that makes me want to learn.
I grew up in a situation that was similar. Competition and dislike of others be it village or region. This is normal human interaction. Most times it went to a certain point and then it was realized that cooperation was best. Some dislike always remained but not enough to do any damage. This was not controlled. Sharif's problem is that he involved himself. Thus this was not a legit experiment.
This is exactly how it is at Army basic training. They split you up and make everything a competition between the other platoons to where there’s so much hatred towards any platoon that is not their own. And caused many fights theft and arguments.
I went to a military boarding school and trust me it was violent asf I got into 2 fights and one scrap it was like lord of the flies even some kids I've heard still have not recoverd others say they where sexually abused I never saw that but looking back there where signs. it's not hard for young men to turn violent
There are some major differences between the study and historical examples. Historically, groups of people usually only worked together when a larger group of people threatened the smaller groups. Also it is far easier to unite smaller groups of people because once a group gets large enough they develop sub-groups, which means there is going to be a lot of infighting, which can be dealt with democratically or autocratically then it gets very complicated from there. Additionally, how many groups of people can unite for a common cause without infighting destroying them? You can think of an alien invasion and perhaps the world could unite against that type of enemy. But when you think of the climate crisis, its hard to imagine the world uniting against that type of enemy. Its not an immediate enough danger. In the study, their common enemy was not a third larger group but the threat of dehydration in the wild. Which you can liken to climate change, since they are similar types of enemies. Which begs the question, why could those kids work together but that doesn't work on a larger scale? As i said our society is too big, there are too many sub-groups that hate and distrust each other, they essentially live in their own worlds, except of course for the fact that the consequences of climate change will affect everyone whether they believe it or not. I think most of the time small groups can unite for a common cause, its far more complicated when you scale those groups up. The study was bunk, but it is a topic worth thinking about.
remembers my to my time at the german boyscouts in the 80s. Shure we where all brothers, but on a 14 days march and cam event, you bring honour to your "tribe" when you steal the flags of other tribes. And beating them up was standart. violence was always the strategy of choice. sometimes we win, somtimes we lose our flag, and had to buy it back with beer and meat..a good way to forge men.👊💪
Another experiment from the 1950s involved a psychologist and a dial that inflicted electrical shocks to an unseen person. As each "shock" was given, a scream could be heard through speakers from the supposed "victim." The psychologist would order the intensity to be increased and the screams got worse. Any student was reluctant to continue inflicting "pain" would take full responsibility. So the persons with the dial kept going, even though the screams coming from the speakers were horrendous.
The irony of what's going on in our country today is definitely not lost. Daily drip-feedings of division and distrust... Sadly, the children in charge of our country can't recognize common ground.
What about the WWI Christmas truce? Enemies who killed each other’s comrades hours before celebrated together before officers stopped it and they went back to killing.
Thats different part of the psychology,there is also experiments about this aswell. It turns out that humans are more than happy to do evil,if the order come from a superior authority that take all the responsibilities.
I am totally onboard with shaming people who park bad and some other bad behaviors, but Mrs. Rogers, please don't wish ill on people. You're better than that.
If it's bad enough like shall we say at least a quarter over on the next parking space I support tire slicing and stabbing or completely blocking the vehicle in.
while i can't agree with his methods, you can't deny the fact that they were effective. regarding the ethical nature of these kind of experiments, in order for true hostility to emerge, total obliviousness much be utilized, otherwise the experiment will be pointless. iow, if you tell somebody you're watching them, then they won't do anything risky (like steal or become aggressive).
i could have shown you this experiment in 5 minutes, with less money, any age kid pretty much. 1 room, all the kids, and 1 current cellphone. Reliable repeatable. Science.
If anyone has ever been to a citywide school camp retreat, this kinda thing happens often. Even for just one week group houses were divided; even against our own fellow classmates from the same school. Cool f*cking experience but it supports this topic of divide & conquer
This experiment COULD NOT have "inspired that book" (as the video description suggests), because "Lord of the Flies" was published in September 1954, just weeks (couple of months at most) after the experiment. There is no freaking way Golding could have written a whole book and publish it in such a short time frame. In fact, the book was written between 1952 and 53, well BEFORE the experiment, and by all accounts it was inspired by "The Coral Island" novel.
If you're looking for a real life event that happens similar to this where the 2 sides came together for a common problem you need to look to the World of Warcraft corrupted blood incident.
If I was to run this experiment, not that I would (or could), I'd gather two groups, have them meet but not intermingle, and give them various challenges where they could either compete against each other in an easier challenge or work together towards a greater challenge. If the groups compete, the winner will get slightly better rewards, while if everyone cooperates then everyone gets vastly superior rewards. For instance, one challenge could be gathering wood for their campfire, they could compete against each other and try to gather more firewood from a pile, with the group that gathered more wood given twice as much marshmallows to roast, or they could work together to carry larger firewood from a pile further away and if they succeed in getting all the large wood pieces from that pile then everyone would be given biscuits and chocolate for s'mores. I think this would present a better picture of whether people tends towards competition simply because the task is easier, or tend towards working together for a greater common benefit.
Robbers Cave Experiment!! We learned about this in my social psychology class! Edit: the explination at the end about how unreliable the results of the experiment are conflicts with what I learned in social psych. It was never talked about how this cannot be applied to other real-life situations and in fact it was just the opposite
Remove all societal norms from birth on an island and you won't find this behavior. A lot is due to how we organize ourselves in our current society and how they were raised from living in communities, social hierarchy in schools, social media is also changing kids behavior. Our society is becoming more and more divided as a whole, from racial groups, gangs, different belief groups etc. and these groups are now starting to clash with one another.
He just proved how easy it is to create differences between people you haven't met. Isn't that what politicians are exploiting for personal gains
Yep
Not always for personal gain, but also to push certain agendas, etc... (regardless of party)
yes!!!
on an anthropological level, exploiting or tribal need to have an enemy.
most are more tactful with it.
but trump was out in the open with it.
and the scary thing is people ate it up like it was the most delicious thing ever.
not realizing they were being manipulated hook line and sinker.
I agree. It's ironic that the research is not revisited. The fact that these boys had multiple factors in common expedite the experiment.
When you examine the occurrences of society. Yes, the experiment was engineered. However, it's a stepping stone into addressing a larger problem.
@@williamstellmon7565 *much* larger problem
Basically the idea of this experiment was studying ways in which prejudice and discrimination could be formed- Sherif deduced that people are most likely to favour their in-group members over people who didn't belong in their group (which proves social identity theory). He found out that the boys were shouting derogatory terms at the opposite teams but Sherif also realised that with the introduction of superordinate goals (goals where they had to work together) it reduced prejudice and discrimination. Thus proving the idea of realistic conflict theory. However, this study wasn't seen as ethically correct as it doesn't follow the ethical guidelines like the families didn't know about the study so they technically didn't get their consent and it's also not generalisable considering Sherif only worked with 11 year old boys so we can't assume that women and older men are going to act in the same way.
I was literally like how is everyone comparing a group of children being manipulated by an adult to adults being manipulated by politicians there isn't really a sound link between the two things.
Just look at the History of Greece and you will get all the aswers you want . In ancient greece all the city states were at war with eachother then they unite because the Persians attack then they return back to civil war
so a temporary truce?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
You just described every group of humans from my family on up.
@@yungcris5211 yes the enemy of my enemy is my friend until there is no longer and enemy to being them together.
Most cities became vassals of the Persians. If you search carefully you will see that only a few decided to put up resistance.
Most unifications became through power struggle:
Athenian hegemony over Greece
Macedonian hegemony over Greece
Mongol tribeS unification by genkis khan
Arab tribes unification by Mohammed
Frankish tribes unification by Clovis
This is how African governments pit different tribes against eachother in order to keep the people weak and divided. This is exactly what is happening in my country Uganda.
As a tribal person this is very common manipulation where they pit you against the other tribal groups or foster animosity with the general dominant population.
Stay safe brother
Honestly, if I was a dictator and I wanted to stay in charge, I'd either pit the people against each other, or pit them against the people of another country. This way none of them are paying attention to me.
Do you believe them?
Musevini has used divide and rule technique to rule Uganda for over 3 decades and it has worked well for him. He gets away with constitutional changes that favour his grip on power because majority tribes are too busy fighting amongst themselves to realise that there are enough resources for everyone to prosper but the dictator manipulates resource supply to keep his loyalists rich and the rest poor.
Not just there my flow human, its everywhere. The powerful fear the common class, that's how they stay in power. By dividing the commoners against one another...
My great grandfather told me about how a kid from his town was put into this experiment and how no one in town like ever saw that kid again it was weird as heck
Maybe the parents move him the fear because of being experiment again
@@starsandsus3725 idk maybe his main point was after like a few weeks his parents became hermits and then they just left town
Yeah right
Wow that's... interesting
That's because he won the prize money, that kid is living it up in a mansion being served by hundred of concubines.
Lead Scientist: "Experiment with these kids to make them violent and distrust each other"
Scientist Understudy: "Oh okay."
But what if-
Hear me out babe
They were teens instead of children
And also they were gay?
This subject got me thinking about the Chimpanzee War of 1974-1978. One group split into two groups and eventually they both started fighting. It's fascinating and scary when you consider the fact that we are closely related to these apes.
Some people might be more ''closely related to these apes'' than others.
The same happens with ants. When their colony get to big they start sub colonies and when that got big enough they split up and turn against each other basically becoming a new colony.
I know this from kurzgezagt channel he has videos on it so go their for the proper and actually fun videos.
Kurzgesagt rules! 💪😎👍
We are not closely related to them. No more than any other of the great apes. We simply share a common ancestor from millions of years ago.
"It's because of that darn phone."
Damm is a better word for that
@@DaroTheDragon I don't want to get this comment deleted or something
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Funny enough, I JUST finished reading lord of the flies.
RUclips knows...
Algorithm supremacy
XD im reading that rn in school
SAME WTF
Same
When a professor does it, it's a study. But when I did it, I got sent to prison. Maybe the Thunderdome was too much.
haha
Honestly, listening to the senarios it sounded like he was just doing whatever he could to prove his theory. Glad i wasnt going crazy.
Not going crazy yet. All we need is to test you to see what makes you tick and with the right button presses in the right order even the most sane among us will become completely lost.
"Definitely video games making children more violent." - Boomers and Karens be like
This video shows how globalist elites manipulate people to violently hate each other
It actually make you violent mostly if you are playing an online game where you sometimes rage quit or throw your mobile in bed or scream. I know this bcuz I was a free fire and pubg addicted
@@Reuw8osjdwhnanx I agree video games can make you violent if you play too much.
the guy who did this experiment is a mad man
Not all boomers. Some, very few remember the things that the hippies did for us. Peace and love are not the punchline of some joke, they are states of being that we should all aspire to.
This experiment is shocking but actually very good. It does show how hatred is fostered and instigated by those in power.
Yes the reason why macedons hate Bulgarians is Russia!
Strongly Identifying as a part of a group is destroying the world
@@zglrd8938 Depends on the group.
So all we need is an Alien Invasion for humanity to be united!
Yes
That's okay China is enough
Pretty much yeah. That or a Robo Uprising
@@TheMattsem i think usa is more so than china
project blue beam
From a research perspective, I thought the experiment was flawed because he kept interfering. He was supposed to just let everything play out
Yup
“As long as there will be man there will be war” -Albert Einstein
"While there are guns and money, there won't be any freedom"
-John Marston
I mean ant have wars all the time as do monkeys; as long as theres life there will be war
"In the 42nd millennium, there is no victor"
I prefer "where there is life there will be war" since animals can have their own wars.
@@fiyahquacker2835 not all living things have the same biology as humans
He tainted his own experiments results by having adults facilitate the behavioral outcome he was seeking. His reaction during his first failure makes it seem less about science and more about fulfilling his own desire to manipulate others.
Funny thing is, in the first attempt he proved the second part well enough. They did unite against a common threat. HIM.
I'm surprised at the end they didn't agree to use squarespace
0:25 this event did not inspired the lord of the flies. William Golding wrote because of his experience in WW2 and it’s horrors and he wondered if things like the concentration camps were an isolated incident or something that could happen again, along with his experience teaching unruly boys when he was a teacher. He wrote it as a parody of coral island and what he believed would happened if young boys were on a deserted island alone with no adults.
The spartan II program: Intense sweating
Thats weird considering he was a turk
If at first you don't succeed
Engineer everything to get your desired result even if that flies in the face of how actual studies are done.
genius
Exactly
People arent going to get this, I already see one.
I wonder if Mr. Sherif saw/heard about the blue/brown eye experiment on school children.
Imagine if he lived long enough and saw so many "reality"/game shows up to today. XD
Great to learn something everyday.
Yep
Learning about bad science..
The mad scientist was RIGHT when picking kids from the 'same' 'ethno-racial & religious' population. Infographics show has no idea about experimental science..
He was WRONG for having no real 'control group'. Infographics show left this very obvious idea out of the commentary..
@@LeHyperTech Doesn’t mean he’s still not learning. Wrong or not there’s a wide range of information here. and if intrigued enough you’re able to look it up on your own. He may have never heard of this story if it wasn’t for Infograhpics. Right or Wrong, the base of the story is correct and follows his thoughts and ideals. All we needed
@@doriansmokcraq9218 i think you replied to the wrong Person but still good argument
@@LeHyperTech yeah my bad g I literally even clicked reply on his comment. You get my point tho lol my b again
The problem is that unethical practices gives more information and insight than the ones we approve
Except in this case it obviously didn't. The dude and his staff had done constant interference to drive the experiment towards the results he wanted using a small nondiverse sample size. So no insight was actually gained all he did was torment and manipulate a bunch of young boys.
Unethical practices are no more or less likely to produce insight. Whether insight/information is produced depends on other factors beyond ethical or not.factors such as sample size and diversity, how much interference happens, and whether or not the same or similar results can be repeated by the same or similar experiments without forcing the results to match up
Ive lived less than 10 miles away from robbers cave yet Ive never knew that this Experiment has ever happened until today
I know these kinds of experiments is unethical, but man it is just so interesting to watch social experiments with actual humans
If only I knew about this research in my early days when my mom was paranoic
Lol right when I'm about to say this reminds me of the book "Lord of the Flies", narrator beats me to it. 💀
Definitely a very flawed "experiment", seemed to be more of a test to see how far they could go with manipulating children into doing things, which is not really anything scientific, considering people do it every day, often leading to a very bad experience for the children involved...
@@lh472 I disagree kids are easy to influence and experiment itself is not necessary history already have the answer
Why was this awful man not jailed?
Great work as always keep them coming years of loving one of my longer lasting subscribed channels
So he had to go out of his way to manipulate people into being violent? What a guy, this Sherif.
They all looked like girls in the beginning, love the videos, always been a fan, I’m just being a stickler. Keep up the good work, you have an very soothing voice that makes me want to learn.
Parents say its video games fault
Parents are wrong
I grew up in a situation that was similar. Competition and dislike of others be it village or region. This is normal human interaction. Most times it went to a certain point and then it was realized that cooperation was best. Some dislike always remained but not enough to do any damage. This was not controlled. Sharif's problem is that he involved himself. Thus this was not a legit experiment.
The only thing this shows is that history matters.
This is exactly how it is at Army basic training. They split you up and make everything a competition between the other platoons to where there’s so much hatred towards any platoon that is not their own. And caused many fights theft and arguments.
I wonder what the experiment would have been like if the group had been half girls and half boys
Yeah.......it's not gonna end well for the girls
I went to a military boarding school and trust me it was violent asf I got into 2 fights and one scrap it was like lord of the flies even some kids I've heard still have not recoverd others say they where sexually abused I never saw that but looking back there where signs. it's not hard for young men to turn violent
He proved people could learn to set aside differences under the right circumstances. It is possible.
for some reason its easy to criticize others but nearly impossible to criticize yourself.
And now we've watched over 41 seasons of this ish on TV in the form of Survivor
this channel is so dope bro. I want this on TV
The first scentance and I was interested. I just finished reading Lord Of The Flies again yesterday.
This Sheriff dude was really trying to be Groo with his minions
So this how Karen’s are born
no because these people , unlike karens actually work together
Basically they’ve been kidnapped and tested
Divide and conquer. How hate preachers turns one group against another just so they themselves stay in controll.
That experiment seems pretty accurate to me.
The sound track on this video is different and make the video very different but I can't afford to miss any of your videos
And it's very loud and distracting
Thank you for putting guidelanes
The same tactics they use to keep people divided
Mental and physical breakdown are the key components. Can't explain the real treatment though. This project was 25 years ago.
Boy 2020 sure proved him wrong in every way.
Manipulating kids and parents is totally wrong I just hope no one got badly hurt
Mom:So,what did you do today?
Kid: I called someone a dumb!
This was really interesting
There are some major differences between the study and historical examples.
Historically, groups of people usually only worked together when a larger group of people threatened the smaller groups. Also it is far easier to unite smaller groups of people because once a group gets large enough they develop sub-groups, which means there is going to be a lot of infighting, which can be dealt with democratically or autocratically then it gets very complicated from there.
Additionally, how many groups of people can unite for a common cause without infighting destroying them? You can think of an alien invasion and perhaps the world could unite against that type of enemy. But when you think of the climate crisis, its hard to imagine the world uniting against that type of enemy. Its not an immediate enough danger.
In the study, their common enemy was not a third larger group but the threat of dehydration in the wild. Which you can liken to climate change, since they are similar types of enemies. Which begs the question, why could those kids work together but that doesn't work on a larger scale? As i said our society is too big, there are too many sub-groups that hate and distrust each other, they essentially live in their own worlds, except of course for the fact that the consequences of climate change will affect everyone whether they believe it or not.
I think most of the time small groups can unite for a common cause, its far more complicated when you scale those groups up.
The study was bunk, but it is a topic worth thinking about.
remembers my to my time at the german boyscouts in the 80s. Shure we where all brothers, but on a 14 days march and cam event, you bring honour to your "tribe" when you steal the flags of other tribes. And beating them up was standart. violence was always the strategy of choice. sometimes we win, somtimes we lose our flag, and had to buy it back with beer and meat..a good way to forge men.👊💪
So what happened to him towards the end? Fired, lawsuits or a mere apology?
Another experiment from the 1950s involved a psychologist and a dial that inflicted electrical shocks to an unseen person. As each "shock" was given, a scream could be heard through speakers from the supposed "victim." The psychologist would order the intensity to be increased and the screams got worse. Any student was reluctant to continue inflicting "pain" would take full responsibility. So the persons with the dial kept going, even though the screams coming from the speakers were horrendous.
This is what family life is like for some unfortunate kids.
How did your last video get taken down?
The irony of what's going on in our country today
is definitely not lost. Daily drip-feedings of division and distrust...
Sadly, the children in charge of our country can't recognize common ground.
What about the WWI Christmas truce? Enemies who killed each other’s comrades hours before celebrated together before officers stopped it and they went back to killing.
Thats different part of the psychology,there is also experiments about this aswell.
It turns out that humans are more than happy to do evil,if the order come from a superior authority that take all the responsibilities.
Filled there socks with rocks haha Love that
I am totally onboard with shaming people who park bad and some other bad behaviors, but Mrs. Rogers, please don't wish ill on people. You're better than that.
If it's bad enough like shall we say at least a quarter over on the next parking space I support tire slicing and stabbing or completely blocking the vehicle in.
this guys always postin
nonstop grind ig
no l
This Should definitely be made into A movie!!! Wow
Happy Halloween Infographics!
I had no idea about this man as a Turkish person, thanks Infographics Show
"WOW"! Fascinating!
Pretty interesting experiment
One word couldve simplified this whole experiment
*dodgeball*
while i can't agree with his methods, you can't deny the fact that they were effective. regarding the ethical nature of these kind of experiments, in order for true hostility to emerge, total obliviousness much be utilized, otherwise the experiment will be pointless. iow, if you tell somebody you're watching them, then they won't do anything risky (like steal or become aggressive).
This is like the prototype for MTV's real world/ road rules challenge
i could have shown you this experiment in 5 minutes, with less money, any age kid pretty much. 1 room, all the kids, and 1 current cellphone. Reliable repeatable. Science.
If anyone has ever been to a citywide school camp retreat, this kinda thing happens often. Even for just one week group houses were divided; even against our own fellow classmates from the same school.
Cool f*cking experience but it supports this topic of divide & conquer
This is just adults being adults
So before 1980 no one ever did background checks? Between this and all those serial killers, I'm so thankful I was born now.
This experiment COULD NOT have "inspired that book" (as the video description suggests), because "Lord of the Flies" was published in September 1954, just weeks (couple of months at most) after the experiment. There is no freaking way Golding could have written a whole book and publish it in such a short time frame. In fact, the book was written between 1952 and 53, well BEFORE the experiment, and by all accounts it was inspired by "The Coral Island" novel.
And?
@@fiyahquacker2835 And it's important to keep facts straight, especially in this day and age. Yes, fact-checking is still a thing.
If you're looking for a real life event that happens similar to this where the 2 sides came together for a common problem you need to look to the World of Warcraft corrupted blood incident.
Wow thats insane
It’s like total drama
Learned something new. 🥳
Nice experiment, we should orchestrate another one of these but, a lot more extreme and with people of different races.
I was at robbers cave two weeks ago.
Video games make you more violent - Karen’s and boomers
I love you channel guys you do great work. Keep it up, I would like to see a video title "things President can't do"
Infographics and Bright Side should collaborate for a video sometime!!! 🤩
This is crazy
If I was to run this experiment, not that I would (or could), I'd gather two groups, have them meet but not intermingle, and give them various challenges where they could either compete against each other in an easier challenge or work together towards a greater challenge. If the groups compete, the winner will get slightly better rewards, while if everyone cooperates then everyone gets vastly superior rewards. For instance, one challenge could be gathering wood for their campfire, they could compete against each other and try to gather more firewood from a pile, with the group that gathered more wood given twice as much marshmallows to roast, or they could work together to carry larger firewood from a pile further away and if they succeed in getting all the large wood pieces from that pile then everyone would be given biscuits and chocolate for s'mores. I think this would present a better picture of whether people tends towards competition simply because the task is easier, or tend towards working together for a greater common benefit.
Robbers Cave Experiment!! We learned about this in my social psychology class!
Edit: the explination at the end about how unreliable the results of the experiment are conflicts with what I learned in social psych. It was never talked about how this cannot be applied to other real-life situations and in fact it was just the opposite
Honestly this,was a good and perhaps neccessary experiment honestly the only issue was that he interfered
Total Drama Island
Remove all societal norms from birth on an island and you won't find this behavior. A lot is due to how we organize ourselves in our current society and how they were raised from living in communities, social hierarchy in schools, social media is also changing kids behavior. Our society is becoming more and more divided as a whole, from racial groups, gangs, different belief groups etc. and these groups are now starting to clash with one another.
Bro everyone gets here at the same time and when they say first it still doesn’t refresh automatically
Impressive vid
What I if told you....
You read the 1st line wrong
Wdym
Lol
this video reminded me of the lord of the flies
As mentioned near the beginning of this video, Lord Of The Flies is based on this experiment.
Give them food and candy! Reinforce! Reinforce! Reinforce!