Group think
January 24, 2012“American social psychologist Irving Janis came into the public eye in the 1960s with his studies on how people are affected by scaremongering propaganda. In the early 1980s he refined his analytical investigations through powerful events in the USA and other parts of the world in a book he entitled Groupthink. Primarily he attempted to put his finger on how President John F. Kennedy, his administration and military staff could even consider the fruitless attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro as a means of crushing the Communist Party. The year was 1961 and the Bay of Pigs intermezzo ended in total fiasco….”
The above lines are excerpts from an article I wrote about Group Defense Mechanisms in the exclusive magazine Meetings International (2009, no.2). It will be one of many more articles becoming published in a book, titled Meetings & Psychology.
Do you want to read more? Do you want to order the book? It is possible to do it already today. The book is expected to become published within a couple of months. You could put the order at www.meetingsinternational.com/shop_en.php
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