Not-invented-here syndrome

What it is

Rejecting ideas, products or research because they came from outside one's own group.

Related

• In-group bias bias
  Rejecting external ideas is in-group bias applied to ideas.
• Excessive self-regard tendency bias
  We prize our own group's ideas for being ours.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#74: Not-invented-here syndrome

References

• Wikipedia: Not-invented-here syndrome 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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