Risk shift
Risk shift or risky shift , also known as the risk surge phenomenon, describes an observation made in socio-psychological experiments and investigations: Groups are generally more willing to take risks than individuals. There seems to be a kind of shifting on to other group members: "I'm not entirely to blame." Judgments made in groups also turn out to be more pronounced after discussion than individually made judgments (polarization), so that risk-shift can be seen as a special case of this general tendency towards polarization . The first experiments by JAF Stoner, who submitted a master's thesis on the risk-escalation phenomenon at Sloan College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , took place in 1961; the topic was then taken up very quickly by social psychological researchers around the world (e.g. Wallach, Kogan, Berm, 1962, 1964) and was a frequent topic of research until the early 1990s.
However, the investigation methods, particularly the early studies on the subject were constantly under fire was doubted in particular whether, from laboratory experiments to the actual group behavior and out of the question, which had to decide the group in these experiments to the general risk appetite be closed can.
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literature
- Manfred Sader: Psychology of the group , p. 12 ff., Juventa (1996), ISBN 3779903156