omission bias

The omission bias is an alleged type of cognitive bias.

Reluctance to vaccinate: omission bias and ambiguity.

Spranca, Minsk and Baron extended the omission bias to judgments of morality of choices.

Omission bias Omission bias may account for some of the findings previously ascribed to status quo bias.

Asch DA, Baron J, Hershey JC, Kunreuther H, Meszaros JR, Ritov I, Spranca M. Omission bias and pertussis vaccination.

Among the concepts associated with his work are omission bias (the tendency for people to excuse acts of omission more easily than acts of commission) and protected values (principles on which people are unwilling to accept tradeoffs).