Groupthink describes how pressure for agreement can displace realistic appraisal of alternatives through suppressed dissent, filtered information, and mistaken unanimity. It helps examine decision procedures and warning signs, but cohesion or a bad outcome alone does not establish the syndrome, whose full causal model remains contested.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryTheories & Explanatory Models
- DomainGroups & Decisions
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.