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Abstract
The "risky shift" phenomenon has aroused considerable mterest among social psychologists in recent years The label "nsky shift" refers to the widely rephcated findmg that groups are wilhng to make decisions mvolvmg greater risks than are the mdividuals who make up the groups. This phenomenon was first discovered by Stoner (1961), and was systematically explored m a senes of repHcations by Wallach, Kogan and Bem (1962), Wallach and Kogan (1965), and others (Blank, 1968, Pmitt & Teger, 1969) Most studies demonstratmg the nsky shift phenomenon have used the Choice Dilemmas task developed by Kogan and Wallach (1964) This task consists of twelve hypothetical hfe situations in which a protagonist has to choose between two altemative courses of action One altemative guarantees a safe outcome, whereas the other altemative, mvolvmg nsk, may turn out to be very desirable or very imdesirable The present experiment exammes group and mdividual decision making m a more reahstic context
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