Example Of Groupthink

Image that you are at the park wait to meet up with a friend. When someone sneaks up behind you and tickles your ribs. You instantly swing your elbow back as hard as you can, hitting that someone in the stomach. Once you realize that you have knocked the wind out of your friend, you feel bad and I’m sure your friend is pretty upset. This has happened to everyone. Human nature still dominate against the nurture aspects of a learned civilization. I myself have experienced instinctual behavior. Once I was sitting at the front desk covering someone’s lunch. When a co-worker scared me so bad that I threw my hands up and screamed in terror. Then my co-worker and I looked at my right hand where I was holding a pair of scissors like a knife. This was so crazy to me, I didn’t even know that there were scissors on the desk, let alone in my hand. Biology is stronger …show more content…
Herd mentality also known as the mob mentality is a term used to describe how people are influenced by their peers and adopt certain behaviors. Examples of the herd mentality include stock market trends, superstition and fashion. Social psychologists continue to study the related topics of group intelligence, crowd wisdom, and regionalized decision making. Zoe Hudson from Bournemouth University said, “Reinforcing faith through mass worship is evident in religious holidays, pilgrimages and ritualistic behavior. I believe the herd mentality is fundamental to the persistence of organized religion” in the 2009s New Scientist. "Herd Mentality" in the 2001 issue of New Scientist suggests that “Stockbrokers behave like sheep. Research of Victor Eguiluz and Martin Zimmermann of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study in Mallorca; How stock market returns are not random, but follow a power law distribution; Details of a model in which stockbrokers behave like flocking animals, sharing information and following the same