groupthink
groupt·hink
noun
1.
decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility)
Origin
Coined by William H. Whyte in 1952, from group + think, modelled on earlier doublethink from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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