Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes

Why this matters here

Janis’s Groupthink studies policy fiascoes in which cohesive groups suppress dissent, producing consensus that feels unanimous while critical information stays unvoiced. Learning to See cites that dynamic for meetings where silence becomes a misleading signal of agreement and later dissent grows more expensive. Janis analyzes group decision pathology; the book asks how collective certainty accumulates through reasonable individual choices not to reopen the room.