The Penn State Scandal

This Penn State scandal really made Penn State University look really bad.  In all that was going on there, much stress were put on the people that were accused of lying, actually assaulting children and people covering up what Sandusky had done.  Those people were Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, and Mike McQueary.  All three of those men either lied to police authorities, covered up some aspect of Sandusky's wrong doing or denied some altercations to conform to group think.  These three men obviously were a very close knit group of friends who didn't want to break the bonds of cohesiveness so they all conformed and decided to lie to authorities about a very serious subject.

Those three men most likely did that due to group think.  This relates to group think because they were a close group of guys who did not want the University to look bad at all, yet it ended up looking bad.  They denied, lied, or covered up aspects to keep their prestige of Penn State University on the roll.  They did this because they had been working for such a beloved institution together for some years now, and they did not want to see it go down the drains.  In group think members of the group try to avoid conflict, exactly what the situation was here.  Also, members try to reach critical decisions without alternative ideas or thoughts, its one idea and its done.  This cohesive group of Penn State representatives ultimately can be explained as a a group of people who stick to group think.