Groupthink

"Groupthink being a coinage — and, admittedly, a loaded one — a working definition is in order.

We are not talking about mere instinctive conformity — it is, after all, a perennialfailing of mankind. What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity — an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient(helpful) but right and good as well."