Groupthink | Ethics Defined

Groupthink occurs when people’s desire to maintain group loyalty trumps all other factors, including abiding by their personal code of ethics. This video is part of Ethics Defined, an animated library of more than 50 ethics terms and concepts from Ethics Unwrapped, available at ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/gl...
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[@nextstep04]

Using Pres. Bush as an example IS an example of GroupThink at your school. Political persuasion at the academic level due to GroupThink from academics.

[@robertwarren2746]

Great video for my class that I can't use due to injection of a political opinion.

[@VodaNegru]

So the fear of being wrong overrules the desire to be right if it means sticking up for objective facts while standing out from the group. In other words, gang-might-makes-right.

[@AK-yx4wc]

great video

[@olgaolga8991]

Why was this political? You could have given the example of...we must pass it so we can find out what's in it.

[@jimbojackson4045]

I don't know if that's a great counter-example, but your point is right. They could've used a neutral example. It would have been more informative.

[@echo-channel77]

Because universities are saturated in groupthink.

[@fernandofigueirinhas1964]

I think the video was referring to a Noam Chomsky analysis of groupthink where he mentions the invasion of Iraq.