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Originally Posted by TonyB06
First off, it depends on what issue "Groupthink" is reviewing or analyzing.
People hold a variety of issues dear to them. If it's something precious, they may not be interested in entertaining or accepting someone else's or anyone else's theories on it because they've settled their own belief/thinking on it, or for a variety of other reasons.
If it's an issue of must less "personal" importance, then focused, effective groupthink may provide some assistance, depends on the range of thinking, and those participating.
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The idea came about during the Bay of Pigs. So, President Kennedy instituted a policy regarding when to address serious events to "be sure that we are not making a bad decision".
I definitely think the "groupthink" is hyperaccelerated with mass media and communications. But social psychology is not my field and I don't know much about what the current concepts are, that is why I posted it.