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.