A Study of Groupthink in Online Communities

Abstract

Abstract. Groupthink phenomenon has been studying widely by a number of authors in the literature and now this topic is still getting a lot of attention. Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, many people often study and work via the Internet with online communities. Therefore, this paper studies phenomenon of Groupthink that may affect the quality of decision making for online communities in Korea. According to our analysis, Cohesion of a group does not affect closed-mindedness of the group. The results obtained in this study are potentially significant and essential for future researches about online community.