Rana Coskun
Omission bias is a cognitive bias that describes the tendency of people to judge harmful actions (commissions) as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful inactions (omissions), even if the outcomes are the same or similar. This bias can affect decision-making processes in various contexts, including moral and ethical judgments, health decisions, and legal interpretations. Essentially, individuals might perceive the act of not doing something as more acceptable or less blameworthy than actively doing something that leads to a similar negative outcome. This can lead to situations where passive decisions are favored over active ones, even if the active decision would result in a better outcome or prevent harm.
Omission Bias
isPerformedBy
Inverse of raise.
isRaisedBy
performs
An activity raises an action
raise
Inverse of inActivity.
hasEngagement
what activity/ies are affecting or affected by a certain engagement
inActivity
A relation of mereological nature that connects a given observation with the activity that originates them: it strengthens the argument that observations are always active processes from a cognitive standpoint, regardless of how conscious they may be. A standard mereological property from another content pattern may be used in lieu of this one and therefore aligned with it.
includes
Because an activity may engage other participants than the one performing it, engagements are in general considered individual rather than collective, therefore each participants has their own engagement and only some of them will be conscious and/or documented.
isEngagedIn
Inverse of isReflectionOn.
isReflectedUponIn
Used to connect the subjective elements of an experience with the corresponding observation, which is extrapolated from the content being interacted with and in itself may not be including a critique.
isReflectionOn
Inverse of isAffectedBy.
affects
Describes the relationship between a cognitive bias and an individual on the base of influence.
isAffectedBy
Action can produce more than a single event. Mutiple events can share the same position in the sequence
Action
The product of a reflection upon an observation, which embodies subjective traits of an experience.
Engagement
The product of an act of scrutiny which may or may not have been performed with a critical disposition
Observation
Comission is defined as action with physical movement in psychology.
Comission
Omission is defined as inaction in psychology.
Omission
Represents an entity that experiences the bias.
Biased Agent
Represents the overarching concept of cognitive biases.
Cognitive Bias
Omission bias is a cognitive bias that describes the tendency of people to judge commissions as less moral than equally harmful inactions omissions.
A Cognizer makes a Decision, which may be about an entity or a course of action.
Deciding
Denotes a human being and express that we are talking about human cognitive biases.
People
The belief that not pulling the lever is less harmful in the trolley lever conflict, reflecting the omission bias in decision-making
Belief Not Pulling Less Harmful
A biased agent involved in the trolley lever conflict, demonstrating omission bias.
Bob
An instance of omission where Bob decides not to pull the lever in the trolley conflict scenario.
Not Pulling The Lever
The action must be taken in the trolley lever conflict, raising a moral decision-making scenario.
Pulling Action
The action of pulling the lever, raising a moral decision-making scenario.
Pulling The Lever
A decision-making scenario where the choice to pull or not pull the lever reflects omission bias.
To Pull Or Not To Pull
Trolley Lever Conflict