I just learned about this in my social psych class! When a group of people who have similar opinions reinforce their thoughts or ideas from outside influence using emotional or biased thinking. Found in political, religious, or otherwise such environments where challenging the majority consensus leads to castigation, punishment or exile. Agreement always has some internal reward such as social elevation or acceptance.
So you're suggesting that both these forums either strive to challenge groupthink, or promote it?
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GhayUniform ago
Look up the definition of the word "groupthink" and tell me that isnt the textbook definition of places like /v/conspiracy or /r/conspiracy on reddit.
Go ahead: I'll wait.
can_of_wurms ago
I just learned about this in my social psych class! When a group of people who have similar opinions reinforce their thoughts or ideas from outside influence using emotional or biased thinking. Found in political, religious, or otherwise such environments where challenging the majority consensus leads to castigation, punishment or exile. Agreement always has some internal reward such as social elevation or acceptance.
So you're suggesting that both these forums either strive to challenge groupthink, or promote it?
carcoma ago
I think the suggestion was that v/r/conspiracy promote it.