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Decision MakingMember ingredient
Omission Bias
Judging harmful inaction as less blameworthy or preferable to an action with equivalent or lower expected harm.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
The psychology of doing nothing: Forms of decision avoidance result from reason and emotion
Research-assisted source review
- What it supports
- Decision avoidance can arise through cost–benefit calculations, anticipated regret and selection difficulty, with shared antecedents and consequences across several forms of inaction.
- Where it may not transfer
- The paper organises heterogeneous evidence and does not provide one pooled omission-bias effect. Avoidance can be rational or emotional, so observed inaction alone cannot identify a mechanism or justify pressure to act.
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