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friends (Paolini et aI., 2004; Wright, Aaron, McLaughlin-Volpe, 8{ Ropp, 1997). When
success resulted from the mutual efforts, it became especially difficult to maintain
feelings of hostility toward those who had been teammates in the triumph. 4
4You should not assume from these descriptions that successful cooperation works to reduce inter-
group hostility only among school-age children. Subsequent research has found similar results of
similar procedures in college groups (Worchel, 1979) and business organizations (Blake &. Mouton,
1979). In these and most all groups, cooperation not only leads to greater liking but to greater group
success (Stanne, D. W. Johnson, &. R. T. Johnson, 1999).
_ Chapter 5 LIKING
Back to School
In the welter of racial tensions that followed school desegregation, certain educa-
tional psychologists began to see the relevance to the classroom in Sherif et al.'s
findings