1-00 (March 2000) by Hans Springer

Many years ago a good friend of mine sent me some pages from a psychological book describing "Groupthink".

"Groupthink" is a phenomenon you can often observe while watching the behaviour of group members in a situation when they need to make a decision (after a long debate) or when they feel "under pressure from outside the group".

In such situations decisions often are taken unanimously. The explanation and the listing of some criteria to strengthen the cognition of Groupthink in real situations needed some serious study of 10 or so pages.

At the end the author showed the following cartoon, illustrating a "Groupthink" situation. Would you agree that this is an excellent visualisation of "Groupthink"? !

From: Myers, David.G. (1996, 5th edition); Social Psychology, NY, Mc Graw-Hill, S. 339 ff  

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