Groupthink, Bay of Pigs, and Watergate reconsidered

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Group decision making may offer the advantages of generating ideas from a pool or collective judgement. The groupthink theory of Irving Janis focuses on the disadvantages of group decision making and used the consequences of the Bay of Pigs invasion by President Kennedy and the Watergate affair of President Nixon as examples. The adverse situations can be explained by the presence of a 'runaway norm' which caused an excessive action against a common 'enemy.'

Behavior Theory, Analysis, Cuba, Human behavior, Organizational behavior, Watergate Affair, 1972-1974, Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961

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Effects of task experience and group experience on group performance, member ability, and recognition of expertise

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Task and group experience can both facilitate the task performance of a group through the operation of different mechanisms. Group experience increases the performance of a group on a given task by facilitating the use and recognition of the expertise of members. Task performance, on the other hand, improves the performance of a group on a related task by increasing the ability of members.

Group problem solving

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