Groupthink occurs when a team or organization becomes so similar in their outlook that they lose the ability to be creative in their decision making. The result is an environment where perspectives ...

When you think about team dynamics and workplace productivity, it’s easy to get trapped in the idea that alignment in thinking is the best path forward; after all, the mindset unity offered by ...

Are you a conformist controlled by groupthink? What got us thinking about this is how social influence can impact our decision-making. Conformity and groupthink are aligning one’s attitudes and ...

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.

This is the fifth the Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics series. We will explore the effect behavior has on markets and the economy as a whole--and how advisors who understand this relationship can ...

In our increasingly digital and interconnected world, the phenomenon of groupthink poses a significant threat to effective decision-making, particularly in remote work settings. As the philosopher ...

The recent, scathing report by former FBI director Louis Freeh detailing the cover-up of child-sexual abuse at the highest levels of Penn State‘s leadership has been parsed a million ways, but the ...

1. Get your facts–and then question them. Groupthink sometimes happens because the people on a team feel overly confident in themselves and their sources. They don’t always dig deep enough to verify ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty. Yet, ironically, MAHA’s core concern—that the nation’s most seasoned public-health experts have been rendered senseless over many years by ...

Everyone knows the concept of groupthink. A tightly knit and overconfident set of decision makers form an insular echo chamber, fail to see the big picture, and end up making disastrous decisions. By ...

Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 24, No. 3/4 (1989), pp. 199-212 (14 pages) We focus in this paper upon the groupthink construct as a partial explanation for the flawed decision-making by British ...