Summary
It's 1954, a group of boys arrive at summer camp, but they don't know they are actually part of an experiment to study prejudice. Step 1: Make the boys hate each other.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
| 0:06.0 | Unfictional is KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries. It's a part of KCRW's program of Stories and Original Documentaries. |
| 0:13.7 | It's a part of KCRW's independent producer project. |
| 0:17.4 | Today on the program, The Inside Story |
| 0:20.2 | of one of the most widely known and influential studies of prejudice and intergroup conflict. |
| 0:26.1 | In 1954, a psychologist named Mzafir Sharif brought a group of 11-year-old boys who didn't know each other to what they thought was three weeks outdoors at summer camp. |
| 0:37.0 | What they didn't know was that they were to be part of an experiment. |
| 0:41.0 | And what happened during those three weeks is still being talked |
| 0:44.4 | about today in theories and textbooks about prejudice, bigotry, and war. |
| 0:51.3 | Psychologist and writer Gina Perry produced a documentary for the Australian Broadcasting |
| 0:56.4 | Corporation's Hindsight program called Inside Robbers Cave, and they've generously |
| 1:02.3 | allowed us to excerpt it here for unfictional. |
| 1:05.1 | Our speaker has been a research fellow at Yale and he has been a distinguished |
| 1:10.2 | visiting professor at Wisconsin and Texas. |
| 1:12.6 | I think that research is always autobiographical. |
| 1:16.7 | I think if you look into sheriff's own personal experience in Turkey, he was |
| 1:21.1 | witnessed to quite a bit of cultural conflict. |
| 1:25.0 | Bizafersherrif was a Turkish scholar who was arrested and thrown in jail for his anti-fascist |
| 1:31.3 | writing in 1944. |
| 1:33.0 | When he was released, he came to the United States, |
| 1:35.0 | where he lived and worked until his death in 1988. |
| 1:38.0 | He was interested in the fields of prejudice and social groups |
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