Jennifer L. Bazar

Jennifer L. Bazar is the assistant director of the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron. She received her Ph.D. in history and theory of psychology from York University; her primary research focus is the history of mental health institutionalization.

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Journey to Robbers Cave

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On the heels of WWII, a team of psychologists set out to solve global conflict. Their lab? Boys summer camps. Their goal? Set the 11- and 12-year-old boys against one another to discover what, if anything, could restore peace. The result? One of psychology’s most enduring and controversial experiments.