You don’t know Irving Janis’s name. But you’ve heard the term he invented: groupthink. A recent example occurred when a New York grand jury indicted Donald Trump on charges related to an alleged ...

The best leaders know successful solutions reflect real discourse and diverse perspectives. They actively work to prevent groupthink by cultivating the following practices. Opinions expressed by ...

The author of "Religion is Groupthink" (CT, Feb. 14), made some very interesting points about religion as an institution. I feel that everyone has the right to have a choice when it comes to their ...

Groupthink thrives where thinking is outsourced. In Kenya, too many people do not ask, “Is this right?” but instead ask, ...

The key phrase is "anti-Trump." When group members stress-test arguments, they're trying to find the arguments that will be most effective in bringing down Trump. That's what it is about. The group ...

We live in a competitive world—one that will likely only become more competitive as more countries develop. The question is: How can we set ourselves apart from the pack when so many competitors might ...

Last year, I was sitting in my U.S. History I class debating our right to freedom of speech. My class was divided along party lines; one half vouching for the protection of hate speech under the First ...

The concept of "groupthink," first identified by Irving Janis, refers to the phenomenon in which group members quickly align on certain decisions without critically evaluating or suppressing ...

In my experience, what K–12 educators want from research is stuff that’s useful. They want strategies rooted in evidence and frank appraisals of whether instructional practices actually do what they ...

The reelection of Donald Trump was, in many ways, a correction. A correction for how the media and government have conducted themselves over the course of the last decades. President Trump understands ...