Omission Bias in Vaccination Decision: Where's the "Omission"? Where's the "Bias"?

• Main Authors: CONNOLLY, Terry, REB, Jochen
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• 主題: Vaccination; regret; omission bias; action; justification; Business; Medicine and Health Sciences; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2497; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/3496/viewcontent/OmissionBias2003.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Several studies have reported that parents are often reluctant to vaccinate their own or other people's children, even when the balance of health risks and benefits clearly favors vaccination. This reluctance has been interpreted as a manifestation of omission bias, a general tendency to prefer...