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 … laboratory experiment. As predicted, if unanimity is required, subjects are more truthful, respond more to others' messages, and …

associated with information cascade during sequential decision-making. In our experiment, a participant receives a private signal …When a sequence of decision makers with private information announce public predictions, initial conformity can create … an information cascade in which all future decision makers will rationally match the early announcements and disregard …