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  2. Groupthink - Wikipedia

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    Groupthink is sometimes stated to occur (more broadly) within natural groups within the community, for example to explain the lifelong different mindsets of those with differing political views (such as "conservatism" and "liberalism" in the U.S. political context [7] or the purported benefits of team work vs. work conducted in solitude). [8]

  3. General group problem solving model - Wikipedia

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    Sally Fuller and Ramon Aldag argue that group decision-making models have been operating under too narrow of a focus due to the overemphasis of the groupthink phenomenon. [2] [3] [4] In addition, according to them, group decision-making has often been framed in relative isolation, ignoring context and real-world circumstances, which is a likely consequence of testing group decision-making in ...

  4. Group decision-making - Wikipedia

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    There are also other examples where the decisions made by a group are flawed, such as the Bay of Pigs invasion, the incident on which the groupthink model of group decision-making is based. [4] Factors that impact other social group behaviours also affect group decisions.

  5. Hive mind - Wikipedia

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    Groupthink, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in a group results in irrational or dysfunctional decision-making Sheeple, a derogatory term referring to groups of people who ‘mindlessly’ follow those in power; Swarm intelligence, the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial

  6. Irving Janis - Wikipedia

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    Irving Lester Janis (May 26, 1918 – November 15, 1990) was an American research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of "groupthink", which described the systematic errors made by groups when making collective decisions.

  7. Group dynamics - Wikipedia

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    For example, one could define U.S. residents (‘Americans’) as a group, but could also define a more specific set of U.S. residents (for example, 'Americans in the South'). For each of these groups, there are distinct dynamics that can be discussed. Notably, on this very broad level, the study of group dynamics is similar to the study of ...

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  9. Transactive memory - Wikipedia

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    Transactive memory is a psychological hypothesis first proposed by Daniel Wegner in 1985 as a response to earlier theories of "group mind" such as groupthink. [1] A transactive memory system is a mechanism through which groups collectively encode, store, and retrieve knowledge.