Stone Soup Experiment

This book tells the story of an interesting and ambitious classroom experiment in psychology. In a course teaching intercultural communication, the author randomly divided her students into two cultural groups. Over the next 10 weeks, traits such as alliances and loyalties evolved within these two groups, while prejudice, hostility, and conflict developed between the two groups. The book reads like a novel with a twisted plot, and the experiment is instructive in our understanding of the causes, and psychological mechanisms, of the disconnect between different groups within the same culture, and between different cultures. This book is valuable for learners and researchers in sociology, psychology, anthropology, and cultural communication.