{
  "id": "groupthink.collective",
  "term": "groupthink",
  "sense": "collective",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "social",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A self-model in a collection that mistakes its own repetition for truth, narrowing the window until difference cannot enter.",
  "folk_gloss": "When a group makes a decision that everyone seems to agree on but no one really thought through.",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "collection.group",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "window.range",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "interaction.process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective.outcome_nobody_chose"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "groupthink"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — collective outcome nobody chose"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groupthink.collective"
}