Intergroup Conflict And Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment

By M. Sherif, O. J. Harvey, B. J. White, W. Hood, C. Sherif. 2013

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The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online (2019, background): “Supporting these ideas is extensive evidence from lab and field studies showing that common in-group identities improve cooperation (Sherif, 1961), increase out-group empathy (Cikara, Bruneau, Van Bavel, & Saxe, 2014), and reduce implicit bias (van Bavel & Cunningham, 2012).”
Biases in News Media as Reflected by Personal Pronouns in Evaluative Contexts (2014, background): “, 1996; Tajfel & Turner, 1979), group cohesion (Gaertner & Schopler, 1998; Menegatti & Rubini, 2012), or intergroup conflict (Brewer, 1999; Sherif et al., 1961) instigated by a motivation for self-esteem or ingroup protection (Critcher et al.”
Doing more with less? Employee reactions to psychological contract breach via target similarity or spillover during public sector organizational change (2014, unknown): “Groups facing a common threat may even show increases in OCBI, as employees bond together (Sherif et al., 1961).”