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Are individual and group decisions dependent on the available information?
Author(s) -
KLEIVEN JO,
FRASER COLIN,
GOUGE CELIA
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1974.tb00573.x
Subject(s) - normative , psychology , group (periodic table) , social psychology , group decision making , epistemology , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry
.— A choice‐shift experiment explored the role of available information in individual and group decisions to one “risky” and one “cautious” problem. Individual pre‐discussion decisions to both problems by Bristol University students were shown to be related to the relative number of arguments favouring risky and cautious decisions known by each student. This information index was related to group decisions on the cautious problem only. Normative group influence, as well, seems to be involved in group decisions, and it is suggested that the relative importance of informational and normative processes for group decision may depend on the nature of the problem discussed.