  Group decisions involve the combination of evidence accumulation by
individual members and direct member-to-member interactions. We consider a
simplified framework of two deciders, each undergoing a two alternative forced
choice task, with the choices of early deciding members biasing members who
have yet to choose. We model decision dynamics as a drift-diffusion process and
present analysis of the associated Fokker-Planck equation for the group. We
show that the probability of coordinated group decisions (both members make the
same decision) is maximized by setting the decision threshold of one member to
a lower value than its neighbor's. This result is akin to a speed-accuracy
tradeoff, where the penalty of lowering the decision threshold is choice
inaccuracy while the benefit is that earlier decisions have a higher
probability of influencing the other member. We numerically extend these
results to large group decisions, where it is shown that by choosing the
appropriate parameters, a small but vocal component of the population can have
a large amount of influence on the total system.
