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A process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance of or conformity to a perceived majority view.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: group-thinking, herdthink
Antonyms: none provided
decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decision making, deciding
Coined by William H. Whyte in 1952, from group + think, modelled on earlier doublethink from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
pensament de grup
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Chinese Mandarin:
群体思维
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Finnish:
laumasieluisuus
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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French:
pensée de groupe
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Galician:
pensamento de grupo
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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German:
Gruppendenken
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Hungarian:
csoportgondolkodás
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Italian:
pensiero di gruppo
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Norwegian Bokmål:
gruppetenking
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Norwegian Bokmål:
gruppetenkning
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
gruppetenking
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Polish:
myślenie grupowe
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Portuguese:
pensamento de grupo
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Russian:
группово́е мышле́ние
(gruppovóje myšlénije)
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Spanish:
pensamiento de grupo
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Swedish:
grupptänkande
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Swedish:
grupptänk
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
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Ukrainian:
групове́ ми́слення
(hrupové mýslennja)
— tendency of a group to conform to the majority view
