Title: 4 Reasons We Disagree, and What to Do About It
Headings: 4 Reasons We Disagree, and What to Do About It
4 Reasons We Disagree, and What to Do About It
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Content: Emotion
They may agree on the objective and the method, and they may even understand that they agree on these things. But they choose to disagree anyway (or at least one of them does). There are a lot of possible emotional reasons: everything from distrust, dislike and hate, to embarrassment, fear, peer pressure, face-saving or just a steadfast commitment to a prior position. Group Disagreement
These same four reasons apply to individuals when they’re in groups. Each individual in the group has an opinion, but group dynamics influence those individual opinions and make the situation more complicated. A group opinion is more than a simple sum of individual opinions. Some members of the group are more vocal and tend to contribute more to the group opinion. Some members of the group have more clout (due to position, rank, respect, trust or just habit) and so their individual opinions carry more weight in a group discussion. Some members of the group are apathetic or afraid to express their opinions, and so their personal opinions go unheard and unrecognized.