ADMS 2511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Peer Pressure

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1 May 2018

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ADMS 2511 Lecture 32 Notes – Groupthink

Introduction

• Groupthink is a disease that attacks many groups and can dramatically hinder their

performance.

• The idiidual’s etal effiiey, eality testig, ad oal judget deteioate as a

result of group pressures.

• We have all seen the symptoms of the groupthink phenomenon

• Illusion of invulnerability.

• Group members become overconfident among themselves, allowing them to take

extraordinary risks.

• Assumption of morality.

• Goup ees eliee highly i the oal ightess of the goup’s ojeties ad do

not feel the need to debate the ethics of their actions.

• Rationalized resistance.

• Group members rationalize any resistance to the assumptions they have made.

• No matter how strongly the evidence may contradict their basic assumptions, members

behave so as to reinforce those assumptions continually.

• Peer pressure.

• Group members apply direct pressure on those who momentarily express doubts about

ay of the goup’s shaed ies o ho uestio the alidity of aguets suppotig

the alternative favored by the majority.

• Minimized doubts.

• Those group members who have doubts or hold differing points of view seek to avoid

deviating from what appears to be group consensus by keeping silent about misgivings

and even minimizing to themselves the importance of their doubts.

• Illusion of unanimity.

• Idiidual’s etal effiiey, eality testig, ad oal judgment deteriorate as a result

of group pressures.

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