Tendency of humans in a group dynamics tend to agree with each other, and hold back objections or dissent even when the group is wrong. Child: Beliefs as tastes 🎨

Notes

• Examples: The social experiments where the whole room is filled with actors, and only one real participant ends up doing whatever everyone else does, even if it’s weird or questionable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8BkzvP19v4
• Examples: A lot of missed shifts in Simple shifts & viewquakes are stemming from group think. Like Three pointers basketball revolution. ****Shooting three pointers in basketball. Whole basketball changed during Steph Curry career. It is weird because it was known earlier that even though 3-pointer harder to score it has a high enough success rate that it will bring more points if the whole team prioritized it as a strategy
• Individuals very rarely see this dynamic in themselves. They think thoughts are their own even though they are determined by what the group thinks
• Related: Hierarchy bias 🎨 Ash conformity experiments
• Work-in-progress