When members of a group are friendly and tight-knit but unable to disagree enough to properly appraise alternatives, they are said to be experiencing
A. paradigm paralysis.
B. groupthink.
C. social loafing.
D. the dialectic method.
E. devil's advocacy.
B. groupthink.
Groupthink is a cohesive group's blind unwillingness to consider alternatives. In this phenomenon, group or team members are friendly and tight-knit, but they are unable to think "outside the box."
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