Irving L. Janis’ Victims of Groupthink Author(s): Paul’t Hart Source: Political Psychology‚ Vol. 12‚ No. 2 (Jun.‚ 1991)‚ pp. 247-278 Published by: International Society of Political Psychology Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3791464 Accessed: 11/01/2010 13:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless
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Avoiding the Groupthink Trap Remain impartial. The leader should not take a directive role but should remain impartial. Seek outside opinions. The leader should invite outside opinions from people who are not members of the group and who are less concerned with maintaining group cohesiveness. Create subgroups. The leader should divide the groups into subgroups that first meet separately and then meet together to discuss their different recommendations. Seek anonymous opinions. The
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4) Groupthink is when individuals held back their stating views in a meeting and agreed to someone else’s position or can go along with the boss suggestion when in fact the individual disagreed with suggestions. These caused a highly cohesive teams to lose their critical evaluative capabilities. There are several symptoms of groupthink such as illusions of invulnerability‚ Belief in inherent group morality‚ self-censorship by members‚ illusions of unanimity‚ mind guarding‚ rationalizing
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racist citizens and their need to blame things on someone else‚ but this stereotyping can be stopped when an individual defends what they believe‚ despite society’s beliefs. The fact that Maycombs citizens were raised to believe that racism was a mindset to have is the largest reason prejudice spread against black people. Cousin Francis is someone who was raised racist‚ telling Scout and Jem that “Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild‚ but now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never
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Grit and Mindset: Leadership in Occupational Therapy When we hear the word success‚ we usually think of people such as CEOs of large companies‚ professional athletes‚ famous authors‚ highly intelligent scientists‚ doctors‚ surgeons‚ or even billionaires. The popular way to categorize these types of people is as having high IQ scores. In a study completed by Peter S. Magnusson‚ it was suggested that a person’s IQ score‚ or level of intelligence does in fact correlate with success in a large group
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Groupthink is when you are placed in a situation where a group of people believe that the majority vote is the best idea‚ that everyone has the same idea so not everyone speaks up‚ and a limit to the individual thought process. The consequence of this process is that not all ideas or thoughts are express. This means that right or the best option to a problem is never expressed. In a group the majority vote makes one idea get voted over another which means that some people individual ideas get covered
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The term groupthink originated in 1952 in Fortune magazine by the author William Whyte. The theory‚ however‚ was not researched or clearly defined until around 1972 by Irving Janis. Whyte acknowledged that groupthink was a definition in progress; Janis picked up and further developed the study many years later. Groupthink is defined as a group’s inability to make correct decisions as a result of the implied need for group cohesion. “Janis provides a series of statements that collectively are
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supposedly independent minds. A number of problems will be examined: group polarization‚ groupthink‚ brainstorming and escalation of commitment. In this essay‚ it will focus on groupthink and firstly will give the definition and then talk about symptoms‚ give some examples about how groupthink make decision false and give some ideas about how to prevent it and finally give a conclusion. According to Janis (1982)‚ groupthink is a condition that occurs when group member’s primary drive is to achieve group
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