To see if in-group behaviour became hostile through competition and how it can be reduced
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How many participants were there?
22 boys aged 11 from Protestant families in Oklahoma who were matched on IQ
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What happened in phase 1?
The boys were given a group and spent a week bonding without knowledge of the other group
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What happened in phase 2?
This was the friction phase where both groups met and competition was introduced
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What happened in phase 3?
The integration phase where a super-ordinate goal was introduced to make the boys work together
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What were the results?
In phase 1 group names were made, in phase 2 name-calling began and in phase 3 after having to work together the boys all looked for time to spend together
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What was concluded from the theory?
It has shown that there are ways of decreasing group prejudice through super-ordinate goals
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Why is this theory high in reliability?
Because there were controls in place so it was replicable and a standardised procedure
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Why is this theory high in validity?
Because there were several methods of collecting data (triangulation)
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How is the theory useful?
Because superordinate goals can be used in real life to reduce prejudice
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Why may there be sample bias?
Because they were all boys, from the same backgrounds of the same age meaning it cannot be representative
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Why is it a weakness that it was a field experiment?
Because there is a high of there being extraneous variables that effect the results of the study
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22 boys aged 11 from Protestant families in Oklahoma who were matched on IQ
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