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Groupthink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Groupthink is a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. Individual creativity, uniquen...
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Groupthink is a concept that was identified by Irving Janis9 that refers to faulty decision-making in a group. Groups experiencing groupthink do not consider all alternatives and they desire unanimity at the expense of quality decisions.
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Janis, I. L. & Mann, L. (1977). Decision making: A psychological analysis of conflict, choice, and commitment. New York: Free Press. ... Eight Main Symptoms of Group Think ... Illusion of Invulnerability: Members ignore obvious danger, take extreme risk, and are overly optimistic.
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Sometimes in highly cohesive groups the members become more concerned about maintaining positive group spirit than about making the most realistic decisions--a phenomenon known as groupthink.
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How To Think: The Perils of GroupThink ... GroupThink and You ... If you are to have any hope of overcoming groupthink and finding the greatness that resides only in the individual, then you must first teach yourself to let group disapproval roll off your back.
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Groupthink: Using the Challenger disaster as an example, CRM's award-winning video teaches your teams to recognize, understand and avoid groupthink. ... CRM Learning's film, GROUPTHINK, is a riveting look at the events and group decision-making that led up to the Challenger disaster. Dr. Irving Janis, a forefather in the...
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GroupThink and the AntiAuthoritarian ... Most broadly, groupthink occurs when a group makes suboptimal decisions because of process problems or communication problems due to SocialNormalization. ... To be achieved, it requires to get over groupthink. In the situation where groupthinking occur, each individual tend to conform...
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Groupthink is "a concept that was identified by Irving Janis ("a forefather in the study of group dynamics") [in 1972] that refers to faulty decision-making in a group. Groups experiencing groupthink do not consider all alternatives and they desire unanimity at the expense of quality decisions."[1] [2]
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