FTP give this term that describes a kind of thinking in which maintaining agreement overrides careful consideration of the facts.
Glen Whyte applied framing effects and risk seeking in the domain of losses to analysis of this concept.  The term was coined in 1952 by American sociologist William H. Whyte writing in Fortune.  Clark McCauley posed three conditions under which it occurs.  Self-censorship, illusions of invulnerability, and unquestioned beliefs are among the eight symptoms of it devised by Irving Janis, and it has been applied to such situations as the Challenger Explosion. FTP give this term that describes a kind of thinking in which maintaining agreement overrides careful consideration of the facts.
Glen Whyte applied framing effects and risk seeking in the domain of losses to analysis of this concept.  
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