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Throwback Thursday: a good idea at the time
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:00am January 19 2023
Fifty years ago this month, we published an essay by Yale psychology professor Irving Janis about "groupthink,” a compulsion by decision-makers to have each other's approval, even at the cost of critical thinking. Janis looked at three American foreign policy decisions through this lens: pre-World War II complacency about the fleet in Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and escalation in Vietnam. The article is still one of our most requested for reprint. 
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