Groupthink is a psychological Phenomenon that occurs within a group in decision making.It occirs when a group of people gather together to make a decision. In group think there is no clear rule for decision making. Everyone in groupthink usually have similar backgrounds. The whole group takes an action together to prove themselves. Groupthink can be destructive if everyone agrees with the idea of one person rather than questioning. Sometimes people set aside own beliefs and agree with the group rather than sharing their own ideas. People who don't agree with ideas mostly remain quite in groupthink. In a groupthink people work together as one mind and come up with solution that affects the ideas in a wrong way.
Groupthink occurs when people come with a decision by agreeing all together. In Philip Zimbardo’s text “ The Stanford prison experiment” he reports on how …show more content…
After making a decision, it is always to share the idea with an outside source. It could could be an individual or anyone. If the idea just stuck in a group than the potential outcome could be dangerous since the group members are often from same backgrounds. Not everyone shares their ideas because of fear, being ignored and misgivings. It is good to assign each group members a special task to to make sure the task is complete. In “ The Stanford Prison Experiment” researchers had an opportunity to prevent damages of prisoners. But they went real extreme as real life prison. The prisoners civil rights were violated because of the experiment. It was all part of the experiment. Researchers did not know what the outcome would be. They know real prisoners typically feel powerless, hopeless and frustrated.They were forced to release some prisoners because things got out of hand. Lack of gameplan damaged things. As one of the researchers said, “ In less than 36 hours, we were forced to release prisoner 8612 because of extreme depression,
Groupthink occurs when people come with a decision by agreeing all together. In Philip Zimbardo’s text “ The Stanford prison experiment” he reports on how …show more content…
After making a decision, it is always to share the idea with an outside source. It could could be an individual or anyone. If the idea just stuck in a group than the potential outcome could be dangerous since the group members are often from same backgrounds. Not everyone shares their ideas because of fear, being ignored and misgivings. It is good to assign each group members a special task to to make sure the task is complete. In “ The Stanford Prison Experiment” researchers had an opportunity to prevent damages of prisoners. But they went real extreme as real life prison. The prisoners civil rights were violated because of the experiment. It was all part of the experiment. Researchers did not know what the outcome would be. They know real prisoners typically feel powerless, hopeless and frustrated.They were forced to release some prisoners because things got out of hand. Lack of gameplan damaged things. As one of the researchers said, “ In less than 36 hours, we were forced to release prisoner 8612 because of extreme depression,