| 单词 | groupthink |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgroupthink groupthink n. a type of thinking engaged in by a group of people deliberating an issue, typically characterized by the making of injudicious decisions through individuals' unwillingness to challenge group consensus. ΚΠ 1952 Fortune Mar. 114/2 Groupthink being a coinage..a working definition is in order... We are not talking about mere instinctive conformity—it is, after all, a perennial failing of mankind. What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity. 1969 D. E. Westlake Up your Banners (1970) xxxvii. 266 If ever I'd seen a document that was the result of group-think, that was it. 1971 I. Janis in Psychol. Today Nov. 43/2 I use the term groupthink as a quick and easy way to refer to the mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive ingroup that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action. 2010 Independent 1 Sept. (Viewspaper section) 4/4 Historians might explain it by..US-British intelligence experiencing the phenomenon of groupthink. < as lemmas |
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