Yoel Inbar must not be allowed to teach psychology at UCLA—or so a student petition informed the California university's administration this past July. Inbar is an eminent, influential, and highly ...

Groupthink, confirmation bias, and conformity subtly distort our perceptions, leading to flawed judgments and, at times, disastrous consequences. Historical examples like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the ...

Groupthink is the term used when decision-making groups make hasty and premature decisions without doing the critical evaluation work required for making well-thought-out and good decisions.