Deliberative Trouble - Why Groups Go to Extremes

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Structured elicitation of expert judgments for threatened species assessment: a case study on a continental scale using email (2012, background): “…group position following discussion is more extreme than the initial stance of any individual group members Punitive damages awarded by juries tend to be higher than the median award decided on by members prior to deliberation Myers & Lamm (1976); Isenberg (1986); Sunstein (2000) 2012 The Authors.”
Is There an Elite Hold? Traditional Media to Social Media Agenda Setting Influence in Blog Networks (2009, background): “Sunstein (2000, 2001, 2002) warns that this partisan, group polarization limits deliberative, democratic conversation by encouraging ''enclave extremism.''”
Plea Bargaining Outside the Shadow of Trial (2004, background): “Sunstein, Deliberative Trouble? Why Groups Go to Extremes, Iio YALE L.J. 71, 88-95 (2000) (discussing biases that affect individuals in group settings).”
Suggesting frameworks of citizen-sourcing via Government 2.0 (2012, background): “Previous studies (Sanders, 1997: 351–354; Sunstein, 2000: 111–113) have found that such processes may reinforce social inequalities and further disempower groups who are supposed to gain a voice as part of the process.”