Came across the Wikipedia article (sorry to revive a dead thread) which listed the symptoms as follows:
1. Illusions of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking.
2. Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions.
3. Rationalizing warnings that might challenge the group’s assumptions.
4. Stereotyping those who are opposed to the group as weak, evil, biased, spiteful, impotent, or stupid.
5. Self-censorship of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus.
6. Illusions of unanimity among group members, silence is viewed as agreement.
7. Direct pressure to conform placed on any member who questions the group, couched in terms of “disloyalty”
Don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty close. Maybe we qualify.
But unquestioned belief in the morality of the group and self-censorship of deviant ideas sound pretty good, if you think about it. So maybe we *want* to qualify?