Existing theoretical and experimental studies have established that unanimity is a poor decision rule for promoting … responsibility for the committee's decision is equally distributed across all agents. We test our predictions in a controlled … are ultimately more likely to make the optimal decision. Idiosyncratic payoffs such as a moral bias thus present a …

decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first … decision. We find that committees' final hiring decisions are systematically less aligned with the initial recommendations of …

The common use of majority rule in group decision making is puzzling. In theory, it inequitably favors the proposer …