However, he is best known for an experiment in which direct competition between two groups of boys created tension which was reduced by having the groups work together on superordinate goals.
As a youth, he watched Greek soldiers slaughter the adult men of his village, motivating him to explore the sources of aggression through social psychology. Along with his wife Carolyn, he theorized that persuasion occurs when new information unable to be assimilated or contrasted falls into an individual's latitude of acceptance, an outlook he called Social Judgment Theory. In 1936, he used the autokinetic effect to show that successive interpretations of an ambiguous piece of information converge to a single estimate, producing some of the first evidence on conformity. However, he is best known for an experiment in which direct competition between two groups of boys created tension which was reduced by having the groups work together on superordinate goals. FTP, identify this Turkish-American psychologist who performed the Robbers Cave experiment.
As a youth, he watched Greek soldiers slaughter the adult men of his village, motivating him to explore the sources of aggression through social psychology.
Muzafer Sherif