Groupthink is what fuels school yard bullying, the current epidemic of social media “trolling” (there’s even a new word for it. Anyone who says they haven’t, isn’t being emotionally honest. This allows people to act and behave in ways that they would never do on their own.Īll of us have acted and reacted in ways we would never have done if we did not have the safety and security of some type of pack bolstering our sense of invulnerability and power. The typical pressure we feel from our conscience or moral code (shrinks refer to it as a superego) is diluted by the presence of the group. One of the most important aspect of group think that most people over look is the fact that because the behavior is dispersed over a group, the individuals no longer feel any personal responsibility for the outcome of the group behavior. And guess what? It’s more familiar and pervasive than you might assume. All souls on board were lost.ĭo you know what psychological phenomenon killed the people described in these two scenarios?Ī phenomenon called Groupthink or mob mentality is the root cause of what lead to the death of those people. Seventy-three seconds into flight, the challenger exploded. Upon inspection that morning icicles were found on the launch structure. Apparently in colder temps the O-ring loses its elasticity. Twelve hours before the launch two engineers from the firm NASA hired to build the rocket boosters called to express concern about the dropping temperature and the reliability of the O-ring(s). The morning of the launch temps hovered around 36 degrees. It was late January and there was a cold snap in Florida. Christa McAuliffe from New Hampshire was chosen and the PR media campaign that blossomed around this announcement breathed new life in to the NASA brand. This is the year they picked one person to train and launch into space with astronauts who had trained their whole lives for this mission. ![]() ![]() Or maybe you’ve heard about the real story behind the tragedy of the space shuttle challenger, NASA’s ambitious 1986 attempt to bring space travel to the everyday ordinary civilian. The next morning, he was discovered dead in his room. The room grew fuzzy and he wobbled out of the house and stumbled back to his dorm. He took all five shots, wincing between gulps. He stared at the row of shots in front of him, already wobbly from a night of partying. They circled the boy in the middle, a child no older than 18. The group of college age boys and girls began to gather in a circle and chant, fists thumping towards the sky, “shots, shots, shots.” Over and over in a chorus.
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