Omission bias in vaccination decisions: Where’s the “omission”? Where’s the “bias”?
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Do decision biases predict bad decisions? Omission bias, naturalness bias, and influenza vaccination.
PURPOSE Numerous studies using hypothetical vignettes have demonstrated decision biases or deviations from utility theory. Do people who commit biases in questionnaire studies make worse real-world decisions than do less biased people? METHODS Two hundred seventy university faculty and staff participated in a questionnaire study in which they reported whether they accepted a free influenza va...
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عنوان ژورنال: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0749-5978
DOI: 10.1016/s0749-5978(03)00057-8