- Groupthink Not a Problem in Simulated Mars Mission | Wired: Science • by Lisa Grossman
- Getting along with your fellow astronauts can be dangerous. Too much consensus — what some psychologists call “groupthink” — can keep crews from being creative in a crisis. But a new study found that six “cosmonauts” on a simulated Mars mission emerged from 105 days in a replica spacecraft with their quirks intact.
The study was the first to directly tackle the possible downside of harmony, rather than antagonism, in a space mission…
Groupthink is still a controversial concept — not all social psychologists think it exists.
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