Sacred versus Pseudo-Sacred Values: How People Cope with Taboo Trade-Offs
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Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values and taboo cognitions.
Many people insist that their commitments to certain values (e.g. love, honor, justice) are absolute and inviolable - in effect, sacred. They treat the mere thought of trading off sacred values against secular ones (such as money) as transparently outrageous - in effect, taboo. Economists insist, however, that in a world of scarce resources, taboo trade-offs are unavoidable. Research shows that...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171110