Practice question · Put in order
Order the stages by which a cohesive committee slides into groupthink.
- Members self-censor their private doubts
- The flawed decision passes unanimously
- An illusion of unanimity forms around the first proposal
- High cohesion and a directive leader set the climate
- Dissenters feel pressure and fall silent
Hints
- Cohesion has to exist before dissent becomes costly.
- Each step makes the following one cheaper.
Show the answer
- High cohesion and a directive leader set the climate
- An illusion of unanimity forms around the first proposal
- Members self-censor their private doubts
- Dissenters feel pressure and fall silent
- The flawed decision passes unanimously
Why
Climate, illusion, self-censorship, pressure, unanimity, each step makes the next cheaper, which is why the antidote must be installed before stage one.
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