How many times, thinking about decisions made with friends, do we realize that we would have made better? Psychologists and sociologists explain that this is due to a psychological impulse that brings us, driven by the evolutionary need to which it belongs necessary to survival, to approve of the behavior of others. This conformism facilitates acceptance from the group by creating a sense of unity. This behavior, studied since the 1950s, has been called Groupthink And he was brought in the 70s to the attention of the scientific community thanks to the studies of the American psychologist I. Janis.
Sense of belonging. The latter defined the characteristics of the GRoupethink, An attitude that can induce people to perform reckless actions in order to be welcomed by the group of references. A dangerous effect is the deind identification that reduces individual consciousness, making the individual perceived as invisible and protected by the group. This can lead to violent behavior and, in the most extreme cases, to situations in which the identity of the group prevails over the individual one by canceling personal values, as happens in the bands of violent teenagers or in seven.
