Axiomempiricalv1

Groups exhibit cognitive biases that are distinct from and

Groups exhibit emergent cognitive biases not reducible to individual biases

Why This Is an Axiom

This is the foundational empirical claim from Janis and subsequent groupthink research — that collective cognition has its own systematic distortions (groupthink, polarization, shared information bias) that emerge from interaction dynamics rather than individual psychology. This cannot be derived from individual bias principles.

Source Lessons

L-1604

Team cognitive biases

Groups have their own biases above and beyond individual ones — groupthink, anchoring, shared information bias, and polarization.

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