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The Lost Boys: inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment
The Lost Boys: inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment
The Lost Boys: inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment
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The fascinating true story of one of the most controversial psychological experiments of the modern era

Competition. Prejudice. Discrimination. Conflict.

In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp in Oklahoma. There they were split into two groups, and encouraged to bully, harass, and demonise each other. The results would make history as one of social psychology’s classic studies: the Robbers Cave experiment.

Conducted at the height of the Cold War, the experiment officially had a happy ending: the boys reconciled, and psychologist Muzafer Sherif demonstrated that while hatred and violence are powerful forces, so too are cooperation and harmony. Today it is proffered as proof that under the right conditions warring groups can make peace. Yet the true story of the experiments is far more complex, and more chilling.

In The Lost Boys, Gina Perry explores the experiment and its consequences, tracing the story of Sherif, a troubled outsider who struggled to craft an experiment that would vanquish his personal demons. Drawing on archival material and new interviews, Perry pieces together a story of drama, mutiny, and intrigue that has never been told before.

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Release dateApr 16, 2018
ISBN9781925548303
The Lost Boys: inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment
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Gina Perry

Factual writer by day, novelist by night, Gina Perry is an award-winning author, science historian and former psychologist whose feature articles, columns, essays and short stories have been published in newspapers and magazines including The Age, The Australian, Cosmos and New Scientist. Gina is author of two books of non-fiction, the acclaimed Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys, both of which tell behind-the-scenes stories of two of psychology's most iconic experiments. Her co-production of the ABC Radio National documentary Beyond the Shock Machine won the Silver World Medal for a history documentary in the 2009 New York Festivals radio awards, she was runner up for the Bragg UNSW Prize for Science Writing in 2013 and her work has been anthologised in Best Australian Science Writing (2013 and 2015). My Father the Whale is her first novel and was shortlisted in the 2021 HarperCollins Banjo Prize.

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