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 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.

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 ...

Critical psychiatry should continue to point out where mainstream psychiatry falls short, but mainstream psychiatry must correct itself.

New evidence reveals that behavior, including hive mentality or groupthink, may be predetermined by genetics. Generally, we consider behavior to be learned. By interacting with the world, different ...

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon born of our innate desire to conform with others. First coined in 1972, the term specifically refers to the tendency for a group to make bad or poorly ...