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Pulling Together: What it Takes to Build Group Cohesion

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Back in the 1950s, Social Scientist Muzafer Sherif was trying to understand what drives groups apart and what brings them together. His first goal was to see how hard it would be to make them dislike each other. Sherif had the teams of boys live in separate, isolated cabins. Turned out it wasn’t too difficult.

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