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History of Groupthink

By The Situationist Staff

The January/February issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine contains a fascinating history of Irving Janis’s famous insight about the process he coined as “groupthink,” which Janis defined as the “mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members’ strivings for unanimity override [...]

Full post as published by The Situationist on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).