Victims of Groupthink

By Irving Lester Janis,

Book cover of Victims of Groupthink: A Psychological Study of Foreign-Policy Decisions and Fiascoes

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talk harmoniously even when in disagreement

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1 author picked Victims of Groupthink as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

When I was at Yale, Professor Irving Janis became aware of my interest in mass psychology and asked if I would be interested in seeing a manuscript he was working on. I jumped at the chance and soon was reading Victims of Groupthink.

The book relates histories of bureaucratic decision-making that went wrong. Janis postulated that in a group setting, people defer the hard work of reasoning to others, whom they assume must be working on the problem. As a result, no one works on the problem, and whatever decision emerges derives from the dynamics of group psychology. This…

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