作者：Amini, Makan; Ekstrom, Mathias; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; Stromsten, Fredrik
作者单位：Stanford University; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a newexperimental procedure to measure such conformity in a judgment task, we compare the degree of conformity in groups with varying gender composition. Overall, our experiments offer little evidence that gender composition affects expression of minority views. A robust finding is that a subject's lack of ability predicts both a true propensity to accept...
