Challenger Disaster by Brittany Guyer https://padlet.com/bnguyer973/6s4y6wl3f5yn Groupthink Project en-us 2018-11-06 22:51:57 UTC 2025-10-09 20:52:52 UTC hello@padlet.com Background of events bnguyer973 https://padlet.com/bnguyer973/6s4y6wl3f5yn/wish/301810874 a.    A brief synopsis of what occurred. The challenger disaster was a space shuttle that after launched  in January 1986 it blew up and lost the crew and was spread nationwide. they believe that NASA was to blame for it.
b.    Key individuals  (who they are, relevant background information, role in the event) There was a former secretary of state William P. Roger who had the so called Rogers Commission to gather all of the data and each piece of the shuttle that they could recover to try and figure out exactly what had happened. As the article states the source of the disaster was a O ring that can cause a numerous amount of problems with the shuttle.
]]> 2018-11-07 21:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bnguyer973/6s4y6wl3f5yn/wish/301810874 Application of Groupthink bnguyer973 https://padlet.com/bnguyer973/6s4y6wl3f5yn/wish/301811036 a.    Symptoms of Groupthink (identify 3-4 different symptoms and provide examples to support your answer) According to the book article  Janis originally defined groupthink as "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action."5 According to his definition, groupthink occurs only when cohesiveness is high 
b.    Effects of Groupthink in this event (provide 2-3 specific examples) that group could have all come up with a cohesive decision on the faultiness of the shuttle rather than blaming NASA 
c.     How Groupthink could have been prevented in this situation
Collective Rationalization, Direct pressure of dissenters. As well as Self appointed mind guard, illusion of unanimity,
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Intro to Communicaton 110
Larry Wilder
November 7,2018
https://williamwolff.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/griffin-groupthink-challenger.pdf

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-challenger-disaster-changed-nasa




]]> 2018-11-07 21:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bnguyer973/6s4y6wl3f5yn/wish/301811170 Crew Members bnguyer973 https://padlet.com/bnguyer973/6s4y6wl3f5yn/wish/302391729 B. Key Individuals
In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Left to right are Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe; payload specialist Gregory Jarvis; and astronauts Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, mission commander; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; and Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist.

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