PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Groupthink, Field Experiment, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
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Compliance with the directives or orders of an authority. Key ingredient for social hierarchies, corporations, universities, militaries, division of labor, maintenance of large organizations, and governments to functions. More central value in the east than in the west (filiopiety) Conforming to these hierarchical systems can have negative consequences. Obey the orders of an authority to hurt or even kill other human beings. Groupthink happens when maintaining harmony among group members is more important than carefully. Groupthink: conformity and obedience analyzing the problem at hand. Illusion of invulnerability, pressure to conform self-censorship. Normative conformity members afraid to criticize or speak out. Obedience explicit hierarchy with an authoritarian leader. Jfk(cid:389)s decision to invade cuba (bay of pigs invasion) There(cid:389)s a lot of theory and not a lot of data. Though it(cid:389)s still considered to have heuristic value much like piaget and maslow. An insignificant negative effect overall between cohesiveness and decision outcomes.
