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).
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The abstract establishes omission bias in general — omitted harm judged less morally wrong and less blameworthy — but says nothing about firing, discontinuation, or parenting, and finds weaker effects for decisions than morality.
“Omission bias is people’s tendency to evaluate harm done through omission as less morally wrong and less blameworthy than commission when there is harm.”
- 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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