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groupthink

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Noun — The way a group makes decisions when its members simply go along with what seems to be the majority view instead of questioning it.

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Coined by William H. Whyte in 1952 from group and think, modelled on the earlier doublethink from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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