Groupthink is the term used when decision-making groups make hasty and premature decisions without doing the critical evaluation work required for making well-thought-out and good decisions.

William H. Whyte, author of the classic sociological commentary "The Organization Man," coined the term groupthink in a 1952 article that appeared in Fortune magazine in reference to the culture of ...

Regardless of one's belief system, political creed or group affiliation, we are all susceptible to an intellectual short circuit — groupthink. Groupthink seeks conformity by stamping out dissent. The ...

Yoel Inbar must not be allowed to teach psychology at UCLA—or so a student petition informed the California university's administration this past July. Inbar is an eminent, influential, and highly ...

Most of us are well aware that groupthink—the phenomenon in which decision-making is ruled by the ease of conformity—is bad for business. When our workplace falls into groupthink, we become complacent ...

According to Sunstein, isolated dissenters can reduce conformity pressures and defeat groupthink. Groupthink occurs when a set of people prioritize harmony and group cohesiveness over accuracy and ...