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GROUPTHINK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does groupthink mean?
• GROUPTHINK (noun)
The noun GROUPTHINK has 1 sense:
1. decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility)
Familiarity information: GROUPTHINK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("groupthink" is a kind of...):
deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)
Context examples
This may be a problem now, with the groupthink going against you, so you have to see what comes up.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Sometimes when people are joined together in a group, they are susceptible to groupthink and begin to follow like little robots rather than think for themselves.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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