Took normal, well-adjusted kids, and put them in two camps. Set up competition between them. Intense hostilities developed C. Perceived injustice 1. Equity theory, other norms of justice are important here. Exploiter can relieve guilt by revaluing inputs - may even blame the victim 3.
Conflicts often contain only a small core of truly incompatible goals.
Can misperceive many other motives, goals 1. The misperceptions of those in conflict are mutual. Russians describe us the same way we describe them. They talk about Vietnam like we talk about Afghanistan. We assumed people in areas dominated by the VC were far more supportive of us than they were.