POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Groupthink
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Usual way to counteract the limitations of individuals mental functioning is to relegate important decisions to groups. Groups can bring out the best and worst in men. Groupthink: mode of thinking that group members engage to overcome unanimity. Member s consider loyalty the highest form of morality. Difficult, but important to: give high priority of objections and doubts, impartiality, different groups should work on same issue to come up with a diff solution to same prob, feedback, assigning a role of devils advocate, rethink strategy. Awareness of shared illusions by members of a group may curtail influence of groupthink in policy-making groups .
