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The 24 pages that link to Groupthink, each with the reason it gives.

• Confirmation biasRelated: Shared assumptions can discourage challenges that might reveal confirming bias.

• ConformityRelated: Conformity can suppress doubts that a group needs to make sound decisions.

• Consensus decision-makingCompared with: Consensus can be mistaken for harmony, making it important to protect dissent and scrutiny.

• Cognitive dissonanceCompared with: Both involve social pressures around disagreement, but groupthink concerns group decisions rather than personal inconsistency.

• Decision-makingRelated: Conformity can suppress dissent and narrow a group’s choices.

• Social influenceRelated: It concerns a group-level decision failure that can arise from pressure for consensus.

• Group polarizationCompared with: A group can polarize without the consensus-seeking and faulty evaluation characteristic of groupthink.

• Pluralistic ignoranceCompared with: Groupthink involves pressure suppressing evaluation; pluralistic ignorance can persist without genuine agreement.

• CollectivismRelated: Strong expectations of unity can suppress disagreement needed for sound decisions.

• Intelligence analysisRelated: Conformity can narrow the alternatives considered in an analytic team.

• ObedienceRelated: Deference to leaders can silence disagreement and weaken a group's judgment.

• CultRelated: Strong conformity can help explain harmful decisions without assuming every member is coerced.

• Group dynamicsBroader topic: It is a specific failure mode that can arise in cohesive groups.

• Scenario planningRelated: Scenario workshops can reproduce shared blind spots unless participants challenge their assumptions.

• Social EpistemologyCompared with: It marks a case where social coordination undermines rather than improves inquiry.

• IndoctrinationRelated: Pressure to conform can sustain doctrines by discouraging dissent within a group.

• Solomon AschRelated: Asch’s work informs discussion of how group pressure can distort individual contributions.

• The Emperor’s New ClothesCompared with: The tale depicts conformity, but its crowd need not be a decision-making group.

• RhinocerosRelated: The town increasingly treats mass agreement as proof that transformation is acceptable.

• MoraleCompared with: High solidarity or confidence can sometimes discourage dissent rather than improve decisions.

• Support groupCompared with: Strong group agreement can discourage questioning, making independent judgment and outside advice valuable.

• Bandwagon effectCompared with: Groupthink concerns flawed collective deliberation, not simply adopting what seems popular.

• Charles MansonRelated: Conformity inside the Family helps explain how extreme ideas could go unchallenged.

• Group cohesivenessRelated: Strong unity can discourage dissent and make cohesion costly for group judgment.