 Turn next to the second individualistic assumption: the bearers of justificatory status are always the beliefs of individual agents. A new movement in social epistemology has called this assumption into question. This movement starts with the observation that we routinely ascribe beliefs to groups. For example, we talk about whether the jury believes the defendant is guilty, or what the Committee on Climate Change believes to be the causes of global warming. A burgeoning body of literature investigates the nature of group belief, and the ways in which group belief depends on the beliefs of the group’s members. For important work on this topic, see Gilbert (1989); List and Pettit (2011); for an overview, see the entry on  belief merging and judgment aggregation.