Abstract
Previous chapters focused narrowly on evidence generation, processing, and use by individuals. From this point onward, focus will shift to social cognition and co-decision-making by groups responsible for generating or applying evidence. Group decision-making might involve a pair of individuals, small groups with or without formal structure, large networks or groups defined by some common feature or objective, or spontaneously coalescing collections of widely dispersed individuals like those that emerge on the Internet. It might also involve expert panels that combine individual, expert–elicitor pair, and group decision-making features. This chapter examines the sociology giving rise to suboptimal behaviors in pairs or small groups of individuals, suggesting ways of reducing the likelihood of poor decision-making behaviors in groups of ecotoxicologists and risk assessors.
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