Groupthink In Social Psychology

Groupthink in social psychology, is when a group makes bad decisions due to any type of pressure, which then leads to the decline of their moral judgement. These groups affected by groupthink tend to be a part of the same background, and ethnicity and haven’t really established any boundaries regarding how to, and who, makes the decisions in the group. The way I understand it is, one would go along with their group, not exactly because one thinks what the group is doing is right, or you agree with them, but more so because that person doesn’t want to be the “negative Nancy” of the group.
There are a few variables that go into the process of groupthink. The major themes shown in groups when groupthink occurs are that:
− The group is usually very close; a tight unit.
− There is a very dominant leader who guides the group
− The group gets easily insulted by words and things said from anyone outside of the group
− The group doesn’t consider everyone’s opinions when making decisions. …show more content…
But, that shows to be almost the complete opposite and those factors often describe a group that is at its most vulnerable to groupthink. Not to be confused with each other, group polarization seems to be the more extreme, radical version of groupthink. The main idea of group polarization is that people will make more daring decisions when in a group, compared to if they were by themselves. In groups experiencing group polarization the people in the group usually have more similar views and actually discuss them in an open conversation, unlike groupthink, but their opinions are just more