0 the process in which bad decisions are made by a group because its members do not want to express opinions, suggest new ideas, etc. that others may disagree with:
We have discovered that the antecedent conditions for groupthink largely existed.
This context contributes to groupthink, in part, because it makes members of the group more cohesive in addressing the threat or challenge at hand.
They tend to get locked into groupthink and fixed mindsets.
That argument explains the positive outcome but not how groupthink could be paired with it.
At the theoretical level, the article paired groupthink with a positive outcome and sought to explain that result theoretically.
But while high cohesiveness is necessary for groupthink to occur, it is not sufficient.
The antecedent conditions (group cohesiveness, the four structural conditions and a provocative context) can cause groupthink.
This inward-looking tendency is described as "groupthink" (6).
