Sometimes one of the pair was actually a lab assistant instructed by Nemeth to provide a wrong answer.

NEWYORKER: Groupthink

According to Nemeth, dissent stimulates new ideas because it encourages us to engage more fully with the work of others and to reassess our viewpoints.

NEWYORKER: Groupthink

In 2003, Charlan Nemeth, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, divided two hundred and sixty-five female undergraduates into teams of five.

NEWYORKER: Groupthink