So Right It's Wrong: Groupthink and the Ubiquitous Nature of Polarized Group Decision Making

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter introduces a ubiquity model of groupthink or Janis's that specifies revised set antecedent conditions to explain the reason for groupthink-like behavior occurring in mundane, temporary, and even minimal groups yet is not an invariant feature group decision making. It mentions probing insightful analysis historical making was correct about symptoms their relationship outcomes, such as suppression dissent, polarization attitude, poor quality wrong conditions. The frequent failure verify more ambitious predictions regarding causal role played by model's stem from general prevalence consensus seeking, polarization, outgroup stereotyping, dissent wide array settings. After some 30 years investigation, evidence has largely failed support formulation's controversial predictions, specifically those linking certain with phenomena.