You don’t know Irving Janis’s name. But you’ve heard the term he invented: groupthink. A recent example occurred when a New York grand jury indicted Donald Trump on charges related to an alleged ...

First used by social psychologist Irving Janis in 1972, “groupthink” is a psychological term that refers to how people try to achieve consensus within a group. The default is that in many group ...

Groupthink is a familiar manifestation of the inertia of no. It’s easier to see other people get hoodwinked by groupthink than it is to identify it in our midst. Groupthink Defined Irving Janis coined ...

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