Group Polarization

Group polarisation is the tendency of the assemblage to converge on more extreme solutions to a problem, as opposed to a decision make alone or independently. There is a phenomenon called the uncollectible shift , it is an example of polarization the risky shift occurs when the group decision is a riskier one than any of the group members would have made individually.This may result because individuals in a group sometimes do non feel as much responsibility and accountability for the actions of the group as they would if they were making the decision alone. The study of group polarization began with an unpublished 1961 Masters thesis by MIT student James Stoner, who observed the so-called risky shift, meaning that a groups decisions be riskier than the average of the individual decisions of members before the group met.Group polarization has been widely considered as a fundamental group decision-making process and was well-established, but remained non-obvious and puzzling beca use its mechanisms were not fully understood. Mechanism Social comparison approaches, sometimes called interpersonal comparison, were based on social mental views of self-perception and the drive of individuals to appear socially desirable. The second major mechanism is informational influence, which is also sometimes referred to as cogent argument theory, or PAT.PAT holds that individual choices are determined by individuals weighing remembered pro and con arguments. These arguments are then applied to possible choices, and the most positive is selected. As a mechanism for polarization, group treatment shifts the weight of evidence as each individual exposes their pro and con arguments, giving each another(prenominal) new arguments and increasing the stock of pro arguments in favor of the group tendency, and con arguments against the group tendency.