Change Quote by William H. Whyte

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act…

— Joshua Ferris

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

— Suzanne Collins

Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force…

— Anonymous

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start…

— John Irving

But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as…

— Ayn Rand

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

— Lewis Schiff

“There are three entirely consistent characteristics of groupthink: closed-mindedness, pressure toward uniformity, and overestimation of the in-group.31”

— Peter H. Johnston

There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for…

— Gregory Berns

When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are…

— Max De Pree

The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force…

— Ludwik Fleck

“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to…

— Veronica Roth