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Controlling the Behaviors of Group Members

Groupthink in the Kennedy Administration

Groupthink in the Kennedy Administration

The United States Bay of Pigs Invasion, implemented by President John F. Kennedy, was one of the primary political case studies that Irving Janis used in explaining the theory of groupthink.

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