Groupthink
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A Brief History of Groupthink: Why two, three, or many heads aren’t always better than one
Kathrin Day Lassila
Lassila, K.D., A Brief History of Groupthink. Yale Alumni Magazine, 2008. 72(3): p. 58-61.
Thirty-five years ago, Yale psychologist Irving Janis published an essay in the Yale Alumni Magazine explaining how a group of intelligent people working together to solve a problem can sometimes arrive at the worst possible answer. He called his radical new theory "groupthink"; it changed the way we think about decision making. The idea remains so influential, says Yale political scientist Donald Green, that "the term 'groupthink' must come up once a day in common conversation." Janis' essay is still the alumni magazine's most requested reprint. His book on the subject went into a second edition that is still in print as a college textbook. (Janis died in 1990.)
