Are groups more likely to defer choice than their members?
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State: Public
Version: Final published version
Serval ID
serval:BIB_649A85D93312
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Are groups more likely to defer choice than their members?
Journal
Judgment and Decision Making
ISSN
1930-2975
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
6
Number
3
Pages
239-251
Language
english
Abstract
When faced with a choice, instead of selecting an option one can normally select none of them (i.e., defer choice). Previous research has occasionally investigated when and why individuals defer choice, but has almost never looked at these questions when groups of people make choices. There are separate reasons to predict that groups may be equally as likely, more likely, or less likely to defer choice as are individuals, so we re-analyzed some previously published data and conducted a new experiment to address this. We found that small groups of people tended to defer choice more often than their members would. Assuming that the groups used a plurality rule but gave additional weight to individual preferences to defer choice allowed the groups' responses to be predicted quite well. Several possible explanations of these findings are discussed.
Keywords
Group decision making, Choice deferral, Decision avoidance, Decision delay
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09/05/2011 2:21
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