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So you have antagonistic groups and you want to reduce the hostility between them.
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Should you? a, force them to spend a lot of time together.
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B, encourage them to avoid each other as much as possible.
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C, give them a task that cannot be solved unless they work together.
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D, set up a program in which speakers attempt to persuade them to get along.
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Or e, punish the groups when they treat each other badly.
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Okay, so which of these are going to work? which is going to work best? well, let's go through them.
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First of all, b is one of the obviously bad suggestions.
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If they avoid each other, then that doesn't reduce the hostility.
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It more maintains it.
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If we punish them when they treat each other badly, this also doesn't reduce the hostility.
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Forcing them to spend time together.
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If we refer to a particular experiment here, the robbers cave experiment.
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So robbers cave experiment, what happens in this experiment? so this is where 11 -year -old boys were split into two groups...