Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink. — Omarosa Manigault Newman Copy Share Image
“The Engineer glanced at the Cutter and Driver, who sat quietly, hesitant to weigh in despite sharing some of his concerns.” — Aaron Gilbee Copy Share Image
“I never cease to be amazed at how common groupthink is among today's populace.” — Colin M. McGroarty Copy Share Image
“The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“Logical minds, accustomed to be convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“The same research suggests that increasing the stress on schools, such as through high-stakes testing, is ill advised. Indeed, researchers have shown… — Peter H. Johnston Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of leftists genuinely mean well, they have just been subjugated by the groupthink promoted in government schools.” — Colin M. McGroarty Copy Share Image
“Groupthink to the extreme, lots of microfocus on just pieces of the puzzle, and an orthodoxy that tries to suppress anything that… — Bruce Buff Copy Share Image
“The past is our always-available counterculture, and it's a rich one. Every minute you spend attending to something not-immediately-present, you are helping… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“groupthink occurs when people “are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group,” and their “strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“There are three entirely consistent characteristics of groupthink: closed-mindedness, pressure toward uniformity, and overestimation of the in-group.31” — Peter H. Johnston Copy Share Image
“The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“The more amiability and esprit de corps among the members of a policy-making in-group, the greater is the danger that independent critical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The thing about Mia's logic was that it was hard to argue with without sounding like the bad guy. Every objection had… — Patrick Riot Copy Share Image
“None of us is as dumb as all of us. It means that when you get a group of people together to… — Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“The New Groupthink did not arise at one precise moment. Cooperative learning, corporate teamwork, and open office plans emerged at different times… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Our individual attention is exceedingly powerful, no doubt about it. But when our attentions (plural) come together in an aligned group, we’re… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“When like-minded people argue, all they do is provide each other with new reasons supporting already held beliefs. Just like solitary reasoners,… — Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there must be someone who says something nobody else does on something the majority agrees but stays silent not to put… — Thomas Vato Copy Share Image
You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“A well-meaning team of people can sometimes make horrible decisions that no single individual would make. Groupthink, and an unwillingness to disagree… — Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
