Groupthink | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:02:38 1 History
00:08:05 2 Symptoms
00:09:20 3 Causes
00:13:23 4 Prevention
00:17:48 5 Empirical findings and meta-analysis
00:22:00 6 Case studies
00:22:10 6.1 Politics and military
00:23:20 6.1.1 Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
00:24:51 6.1.2 Pearl Harbor
00:26:30 6.1.3 2016 United States presidential election
00:28:07 6.2 Corporate world
00:28:27 6.2.1 Swissair
00:29:33 6.2.2 Marks &amp; Spencer and British Airways
00:30:43 6.3 Sports
00:32:03 7 Recent developments
00:32:13 7.1 Ubiquity model
00:33:03 7.1.1 General group problem-solving (GGPS) model
00:34:06 7.2 Reexamination
00:35:27 7.3 Reformulation
00:36:24 7.4 Sociocognitive theory
00:37:00 8 See also



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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates


SUMMARY
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Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.
Groupthink requires individuals to avoid raising controversial issues or alternative solutions, and there is loss of individual creativity, uniqueness and independent thinking. The dysfunctional group dynamics of the "ingroup" produces an "illusion of invulnerability" (an inflated certainty that the right decision has been made). Thus the "ingroup" significantly overrates its own abilities in decision-making and significantly underrates the abilities of its opponents (the "outgroup"). Furthermore, groupthink can produce dehumanizing actions against the "outgroup".
Antecedent factors such as group cohesiveness, faulty group structure, and situational context (e.g., community panic) play into the likelihood of whether or not groupthink will impact the decision-making process.
Groupthink is a construct of social psychology, but has an extensive reach and influences literature in the fields of communication studies, political science, management, and organizational theory, as well as important aspects of deviant religious cult behaviour.Groupthink is sometimes stated to occur (more broadly) within natural groups within the community, for example to explain the lifelong different mindsets of those with differing political views (such as "conservatism" and "liberalism" in the U.S. political context ) or the purported benefits of team work vs. work conducted in solitude. However, this conformity of viewpoints within a group does not mainly involve deliberate group decision-making, and might be better explained by the collective confirmation bias of the individual members of the group.
Most of the initial research on groupthink was conducted by Irving Janis, a research psychologist from Yale University. Janis published an influential book in 1972, which was revised in 1982. Janis used the Bay of Pigs disaster (the failed invasion of Castro's Cuba in 1961) and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 as his two prime case studies. Later studies have evaluated and reformulated his groupthink model.