A junior high coach decides to separate his basketball players into an A team and a B team. These two teams regularly play each other and compete for rewards, such as time at the drinking fountain and use of the new basketballs. The Robbers Cave experiment would suggest that the coach's new arrangement is likely to
a. promote team unity.
b. lead to animosity between the A team and the B team.
c. encourage the development of leadership skills.
d. lead to less vigorous practices.
b
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