Practice question · Multiple choice
At Robbers Cave, two hostile boys' groups were brought together for pleasant joint meals, and the hostility got worse. What finally reduced it?
Hints
- The meals put them in the same room. Ask what a shared meal does not require them to do.
- What changed when the camp's water failed?
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C. Superordinate goals neither group could solve alone
Why
Proximity alone gave them a better venue for hostility, the joint meals became food fights. What worked was needing each other: a goal neither group could reach alone makes the other group's success part of your own. That is also the crucial condition the contact hypothesis later formalised.
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