groupthink
A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.
Noun
- A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.
- At present we do not know what percentage of all national fiascoes are attributable to groupthink. Some decisions of poor quality that turn out to be fiascoes might be ascribed primarily to mistakes made by just one...
- This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning. - 2005 July 12, Jacob Weisberg, “The Anonymity Trap”, in Slate, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2021:
- Anyone who works for a news organization (or any large corporation, for that matter) can weave tales of woe around all the planning, brainstorming, off-site retreats and other groupthinks that led nowhere. - 2011, Mark...
Synonyms: group-thinking herdthink
Origin
Coined by William H. Whyte in 1952, from group + think, modelled on earlier doublethink from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.