Irving Janis

Irving Lester Janis (born May 26, 1918 in Buffalo , New York , † November 15, 1990 in Santa Rosa, California ) was an American social and research psychologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

Janis did research at Yale and Berkeley Universities . He explored the effect of intimidating communication , group dynamics and developed a decision-making theory, which he groupthink ( groupthink called). In 1972 his book about groupthink was published, in which he demonstrated that, in addition to individual intelligence, the tendency to adapt leads to judgment.

Awards

Janis received the following awards:

• Socio-Psychological Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1967
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1974
• Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association, 1981
• Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 1991

Works (selection)

• Victims of Groupthink: A Psychological Study of Foreign-Policy Decisions and Fiascoes , Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1972, ISBN 0-395-14044-7
• Stress, attitudes, and decisions: selected papers , Praeger, New York 1982, ISBN 0-03-059036-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Irving Janis in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irving Janis Dies at 72; Coined 'Group Think' , New York Times . November 18, 1990. 
2. ↑ Elliot Aronson, Robin M. Akert, Timothy D. Wilson: Sozialpsychologie , Gruppendenken, p. 290, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8273-7359-5
3. ↑ Paul't Hart: Irving L. Janis' Victims of Groupthink , Political Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 247–278, International Society of Political Psychology, ( Online Version, PDF) ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.