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Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 23 in Between a So, 4. This is an in-between episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast, which means no cookies, no experts, but you will get to hear a really cool story from the deep history of psychology back when, well, sometimes people

did experiments that today, well, they would never, ever attempt, they never get away with so I think you're going to enjoy it and without much more delay let's just go ahead and hear about the Robbers Cave Experiment.

In 1954, in 1954, in Eastern Oklahoma, two tribes of children nearly killed each other.

The neighboring tribes were unaware of each other's existence.

Separately, they lived among nature,

played games, constructed shelters, prepared food,

they knew peace.

Each culture developed its own norms and rules of conduct.

Each culture arrived at novel solutions

to survival critical problems.

Each culture named the creeks and rocks and dangerous places and those names were known to all. and Scientists stood by, watchful, scribbling notes and whispering.

Much nodding and squinting took place as the tribes granted to anthropology and psychology.

A wealth of data about how people build and maintain groups, how hierarchies are established

and preserved.

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