A group decision that nobody wants | Just Reflections - Issue #43
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Social pressures can make people say that they want and believe something that they really don’t want or believe. Imagine a situation where we meet up with some friends and we have to jointly decide what we want to do together. The group may jointly assume that everyone wants to watch a movie when in fact no one does. So everyone in the group goes along with the idea of a movie to appear cooperative. We make a group decision that nobody wants. At the end of the event, we’re all dissatisfied after watching the movie when we all would have rather done something else. But when we leave, again wanting to be cooperative, we all say that we enjoyed it. Thus we create the impression that we enjoy watching movies together and set ourselves up for doing it again the next time we all meet because everyone thinks everyone else enjoys watching a movie.
A group decision that nobody wants | Just Reflections - Issue #43
A group decision that nobody wants | Just…
A group decision that nobody wants | Just Reflections - Issue #43
Social pressures can make people say that they want and believe something that they really don’t want or believe. Imagine a situation where we meet up with some friends and we have to jointly decide what we want to do together. The group may jointly assume that everyone wants to watch a movie when in fact no one does. So everyone in the group goes along with the idea of a movie to appear cooperative. We make a group decision that nobody wants. At the end of the event, we’re all dissatisfied after watching the movie when we all would have rather done something else. But when we leave, again wanting to be cooperative, we all say that we enjoyed it. Thus we create the impression that we enjoy watching movies together and set ourselves up for doing it again the next time we all meet because everyone thinks everyone else enjoys watching a movie.