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Victims of groupthink : a psychological study of foreign-policy decisions and fiascoes / [by] Irving L. Janis

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin com., 1972Description: viii, 277 p. : illus; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0395140021
  • 9780395140024
  • 0395140447
  • 9780395140444‰q(pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.73 JAN 1972 14
Contents:
aWhy so many miscalculations? -- A perfect failure : the Bay of Pigs -- In and out of North Korea : the wrong war with the wrong enemy -- Pearl Harbor revisited : or why the fortress slept -- Escalation of the Vietnam War : how could it happen? -- The Cuban Missile crisis -- The making of the Marshall Plan -- Generalizations : who succumbs, when, and why? -- Preventing Groupthink.
Summary: Janis identifies the causes and fateful consequences of groupthink, the process that takes over when decision-making bodies agree for the sake of agreeing to abandon their critical judgment.
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Sách, chuyên khảo, tuyển tập Phòng DVTT KHTN & XHNV Kho Nhân văn tham khảo 327.73 JAN 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available AV-M2/00064
Sách, chuyên khảo, tuyển tập Phòng DVTT KHTN & XHNV Kho Nhân văn tham khảo 327.73 JAN 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available AV-M2/00065

Bibliography: p. 253-258

aWhy so many miscalculations? -- A perfect failure : the Bay of Pigs -- In and out of North Korea : the wrong war with the wrong enemy -- Pearl Harbor revisited : or why the fortress slept -- Escalation of the Vietnam War : how could it happen? -- The Cuban Missile crisis -- The making of the Marshall Plan -- Generalizations : who succumbs, when, and why? -- Preventing Groupthink.

Janis identifies the causes and fateful consequences of groupthink, the process that takes over when decision-making bodies agree for the sake of agreeing to abandon their critical judgment.

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