Abilene Paradox

[sherilm]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox

[pavel_lishin]

The example explanation immediately makes me think of the Asker vs. Guesser dichotomy: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/askers-...

[dave333]

Support for war might be an example of this. People don't want to be considered unpatriotic.

[emmelaich → dave333]

I suspect that's more like groupthink. Though there's a lot of crossover if you just consider the external behaviour.

[motohagiography]

This looks a lot like how internet mobbing and other modern kinds of mobs get formed.