...States), Janis has come to grips with a phenomenon he has aptly called groupthink. This term refers to "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' striving for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise...

...analysis concluded that "captured KKE Irving L. Janis, who has written on the term, defines groupthink as "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive ingroup, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise...

...process within small groups of intelligence analysts or policy makers. Janis defines gioupthink as "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise...

...peer review takes the form of groupthink (Janis 1983) . According to Janis, "groupthink, " refer to a... "mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise...

...members of cohesive groups to slip into groupthink, or defective patterns of decision making, in which "the members' strivings for unanimity override their...realistically appraise alternative courses of action." Irving L. Janis, Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes (Boston, 1982),...

...Irving Janis (1982), who describes the phenomenon of groupthink as a "quick and easy way to refer to a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive ingroup, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise...

...problems will not be discussed here. Definition of Groupthink. Groupthink was originally defined as a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive ingroup, when members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise...

...1960s, introducing a theory that outlined the antecedent conditions that give rise to groupt hink, "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' striving for unanimity overrides their motivation to realistically appraise...

...relations and these become part of the hidden agenda at their meetings" (Janis 1983, 7). The group members' "strivings for unanimity override their motivation...realistically appraise alternative courses of action" (ibid., 9). Thus begins "a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment...

...of the group could be hampered by groupthink. Griffin and Moorhead (1986) define groupthink as a way of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group. Groupthink occurs when the members are so concerned about unanimity that they are disinclined...