Dangers of Group Think

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What is it about group think that can make it dangerous? Group Think is defined as the social conformity for an idea due to fear of strong objections from the rest of the group. “Go along to get along” is a strategy sometime deployed when a person may disagree with a position, but does not want to rock the boat.

A 1971 article by Irving L. Janis in Psychology Today Magazine talks about the phenomenon of concurrence-seeking. Is this what is happening with the presidential election?

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Ama Ndlovu explores the connections of culture, ecology, and imagination.

Her work combines ancestral knowledge with visions of the planetary future, examining how Black perspectives can transform how we see our world and what lies ahead.