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Group thinking<ref>Janis, I. L. (November 1971). "Groupthink". Psychology Today 5 (6): 43–46, 74–76</ref><ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink Wikipedia contributors. "Groupthink." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.]</ref> is a state where the group [[SON]] is unchallenged by criticism.  It can be caused by group settings that inhibit any criticism on the group [[SON]], like excluding members that do not conform to the groups beliefs, or denouncing refuting evidences as illusions, heresy or efforts of some other rival ideology to break the group ideology.
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Group thinking<ref>Janis, I. L. (November 1971). "Groupthink". Psychology Today 5 (6): 43–46, 74–76</ref><ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink Wikipedia contributors. "Groupthink." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.]</ref> is a state where the group's [[SON]] is unchallenged by criticism.  It can be caused by group settings that inhibit any criticism on the group's [[SON]], like excluding members that do not conform to the groups beliefs, or denouncing refuting evidences as illusions, heresy or efforts of some other rival ideology to break the group ideology.
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Group thinking will cause the group to become [[conservative]], and under influence of perceived danger may cause [[group polarization]].
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==Read also==
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Neblo reaserch in group thinking and group polarization<ref>[http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/mneblo/papers/ChangeC4.pdf Neblo, Michael A. 2006. Change for the better?Linking the mechanisms of deliberative opinion change to normative theory. Paper presented to the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago .]</ref>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 02:25, 3 March 2015

Group thinking[1][2] is a state where the group's SON is unchallenged by criticism. It can be caused by group settings that inhibit any criticism on the group's SON, like excluding members that do not conform to the groups beliefs, or denouncing refuting evidences as illusions, heresy or efforts of some other rival ideology to break the group ideology.

Group thinking will cause the group to become conservative, and under influence of perceived danger may cause group polarization.

Read also

Neblo reaserch in group thinking and group polarization[3]

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