Groupthink

What it is

A group's desire for harmony and consensus suppresses dissent and realistic appraisal of alternatives.

Related

• Overconfidence effect bias
  Groups reinforce each other's confidence and feel invulnerable.
• Social proof bias
  When everybody follows everyone else, a group can converge without anyone thinking.
• Conformity bias
  Groupthink is conformity inside a cohesive group.
• In-group bias bias
  Strong in-group loyalty makes dissent feel like betrayal.
• Social loafing bias
  Both are group effects that lower the quality of group work.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#25: Groupthink

References

• Wikipedia: Groupthink en.wikipedia.org
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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