Action and Inaction in Moral Judgments and Decisions¶
Yeung, S. K., Yay, T., & Feldman, G. (2022). Action and Inaction in Moral Judgments and Decisions: Meta-Analysis of Omission Bias Omission-Commission Asymmetries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(10), 1499-1515.
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Primes¶
- Omission Bias
- In management and parenting it is the reluctance to make a hard active call — a firing, a discontinuation, an intervention in a struggling report or child — when allowing the situation to deteriorate is less attributable than acting and getting it wrong.
This sourceMeta-analytically confirms the robust preference for inaction over action across decision contexts, supporting the management/hard-call instance (reluctance to make an active call such as firing).
- In management and parenting it is the reluctance to make a hard active call — a firing, a discontinuation, an intervention in a struggling report or child — when allowing the situation to deteriorate is less attributable than acting and getting it wrong.
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