Identify and briefly describe at least three of the symptoms of ...

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Identify and briefly describe at least three of the symptoms of groupthink (i.e., three of the group features and/or situational features that indicate that a group is suffering from groupthink).
 
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Question 2

Explain what the objective roots of happiness are based on current research described in your text.
 
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Answer to Question 1

 Possible Response Points
 There is pressure toward conformity.
 There is an appearance of unanimous agreement; self-censorship takes place.
 There is an illusion of group invulnerability.
 There is a sense of moral superiority.
 There is a tendency to underestimate opponents.

Answer to Question 2

a . Objective roots of happiness refer to objective features of one's life that can correlate, or fail to correlate, with life satisfaction.
b. Examples of objective roots of happiness include having enough money, a good marriage, a nice house, a good job, children, good friends and so forth. Success on these features tends to go with success according to biological and cultural standards.
c. The exception to those examples is having children. People with children are generally not as happy as people without children. Parents are often unable to see this, even when faced with objective evidence, because they need to justify the sacrifices they make and because they do not want to see having had the children as a mistake. Having children, however, does increase the level of meaning in one's life, just not necessarily the level of happiness.
d. The relationship between most objective predictors of happiness and actual reported happiness is relatively weak. The one exception to this is the level of social connections, or friendships. Stronger social connections is strongly related to objective happiness.