Risky shift

Risk -shift or Risky shift, also referred to as risk - shear phenomenon describes an observation that was made in social psychological experiments and studies: Groups decide generally risk averse than individuals. It seems a kind of passed on to other group members to take place: " I do not wear so all the blame. " Precipitated in groups all judgments after discussion in severity stronger than individually precipitated judgments ( polarization ), so that risk -shift can be seen as a special case of this general trend of polarization. The first experiments of J.A.F. Stoner, who submitted a thesis on risk pushing phenomenon at Sloan College of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took place in 1961; the subject was then very quickly from social psychological researchers around the world (eg, Wallach, Kogan, Berm, 1962, 1964) and was taken up to the early 1990s, a frequent subject of investigations.

However, the methods of investigation, in particular the early work on the subject were always in the criticism: doubted was particularly whether to infer the overall risk sentiment from the laboratory experiments on the actual group behavior and out of the question that the group had to decide in these experiments, can.