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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. In a famous experiment he and his team recruited 22 middle-school aged boys, broke them into two teams and took them to summer camp near Robber’s Cave State Park, Oklahoma. No surprise here.

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