Superordinate goals
IN PSYCHOLOGY, GOALS THAT REQUIRE THE COOPERATION OF TWO OR MORE PEOPLE OR GROUPS TO ACHIEVE, WHICH USUALLY RESULTS IN REWARDS TO THE GROUPS
In social psychology, superordinate goals are goals that are worth completing but require two or more social groups to cooperatively achieve. The idea was proposed by social psychologist Muzafer Sherif in his experiments on intergroup relations, run in the 1940s and 1950s, as a way of reducing conflict between competing groups.