Are groups more likely to defer choice than their members?

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-251

  White, Chris M ^a   Hafenbrädl, Sebastian ^a   Hoffrage, Ulrich ^a   Reisen, Nils ^a   Woike, Jan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Choice deferral; Decision avoidance; Decision delay; Group decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955749661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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