A new study from Lebanon finds that people with authoritarian beliefs tend to oppose violence against political leaders, ...

Psychology is a fascinating field that delves deep into the intricacies of human behaviour, cognition, and emotion. These books go beyond surface-level understanding, offering profound insights into ...

Over the years, I have observed groupthink's negative impact on digital transformation initiatives; for example, internal teams blindly adopting technology solutions based solely on the IT ...

Clearly all the potential upside of groupthink comes with warning labels: For example, the cost of achieving seemingly unified visions should not be at the expense of demotivating team members or ...

Mob mentality, herd mentality, pack mentality, groupthink, or crowd psychology — the concept has many names. These all boil down to the same idea: Individuals are influenced by a larger group ...

The Post Office scandal, the subject of a public inquiry since 2021, saw more than 900 sub-postmasters prosecuted for theft and false accounting. But it is now established that the Horizon computer ...

Yoel Inbar must not be allowed to teach psychology at UCLA—or so a student petition informed the California university's administration this past July. Inbar is an eminent, influential, and ...

Groupthink has been used to explain failures like the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster when a group of NASA employees allowed the launch to continue despite concerns about whether the shuttle’s ...