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this membership matters a lot to you. What's particularly interesting is
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even groups that are formed, that you were not born with,
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that are formed on the fly, exert a huge amount of control over
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your moral feelings and moral attitudes.
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And the best example of this is discussed in detail in the textbook.
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And this is the Robber's Cave study. And this Robbers Cave study serves as
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a nice illustration of morality in everyday life.
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The study was, 11- and 12-year-old boys at a camping program.
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These were well-adjusted, pretty rich kids, racially homogeneous,
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and they were put into separate cabins.
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And the cabins were given leaders and they gave themselves names.
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Being unimaginative boys, they called themselves "The Eagles"