Reluctance to Vaccinate¶
Ritov, I., & Baron, J. (1990). Reluctance to Vaccinate: Omission Bias and Ambiguity. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 3(4), 263-277.
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- Omission Bias
- In clinical medicine and public health it is the most-studied case: vaccination hesitancy in which a parent prefers to risk a worse outcome from a disease (a harm of omission, not their doing) over a far smaller risk from a vaccine (a harm of commission, their doing), and the broader clinical pull toward not intervening where a bad outcome after treating would invite blame that the same bad outcome after watchful inaction would not.
This sourceDemonstrates omission bias in vaccination decisions — preferring a larger risk from inaction over a smaller risk from acting.
- In clinical medicine and public health it is the most-studied case: vaccination hesitancy in which a parent prefers to risk a worse outcome from a disease (a harm of omission, not their doing) over a far smaller risk from a vaccine (a harm of commission, their doing), and the broader clinical pull toward not intervening where a bad outcome after treating would invite blame that the same bad outcome after watchful inaction would not.
- Regret
- Behavioral economics: Anticipated regret explains a family of otherwise puzzling behaviors — buying insurance against low-probability losses, holding losing stocks to avoid realizing the regret of a bad purchase, refusing to switch from defaults, and the asymmetry between regret of action and regret of inaction documented in the omission-bias literature.
This sourceDocuments omission bias—the asymmetry between regret of action and regret of inaction—exemplifying how anticipated regret distorts choice toward defaults and inaction.
- Behavioral economics: Anticipated regret explains a family of otherwise puzzling behaviors — buying insurance against low-probability losses, holding losing stocks to avoid realizing the regret of a bad purchase, refusing to switch from defaults, and the asymmetry between regret of action and regret of inaction documented in the omission-bias literature.
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