Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Group Think - Apathy is NOT a Factor

[Joanie Connors (jvcphd]

Groupthink does not mean everyone is thinking alike. It means they are
willing to appear to think the same as the majority.

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Sharon Villines
<sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:
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> On 5 Jul 2011, at 1:40 AM, Norman Gauss wrote:
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>> If a proposal is presented at a meeting that interests relatively few
>> people, but needs the consensus of everybody, group think is likely to be in
>> force for those people who give approval but really don't care one way or
>> the other.  More likely, in their apathy, they are bored and just want to
>> move on to another topic.
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> Group think is not apathy. It is not indifference. Group think is an active 
> process in which everyone thinks alike.
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> Sharon
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> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
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