ABSTRACT
As Lieberman (1965, p. 1) has pointed out, “How persons in interaction combine their individual preference patterns into a social choice is a fundamental question about which there has been much speculation, and an amount of mathematical work; but there have been few, if any, empirical studies dealing directly with the question.” (our italics) This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment which was designed to contribute to one aspect of our empirical knowledge of the social choice question.
