Taboo trade-offs¶
Fiske, A. P., & Tetlock, P. E. (1997). Taboo trade-offs: Reactions to transactions that transgress the spheres of justice. Political Psychology, 18(2), 255-297.
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- Sacred
- A person may value their car enormously yet sell it for a sufficient price; the same person may refuse, with offense, any price for a parent's wedding ring—not because the ring is worth more dollars but because it has been removed from the dollar ledger entirely.
This sourceThe taboo trade-off: placing a sacred value into the same comparison frame as a secular one (a price on a child, a market in organs) provokes revulsion rather than negotiation, with the defining test being willingness to weigh at all rather than magnitude of value; protected-values reasoning transfers to negotiation and policy, predicting which goods cannot be monetized without backlash and why violation registers as contamination rather than damage.
- A person may value their car enormously yet sell it for a sufficient price; the same person may refuse, with offense, any price for a parent's wedding ring—not because the ring is worth more dollars but because it has been removed from the dollar ledger entirely.
- Taboo
- Modern psychological research (Tetlock, Fiske) extends the concept to taboo trade-offs — the resistance to pricing or quantifying things in domains where such valuation is treated as morally abhorrent (paying to skip the line ahead of a dying person, putting a monetary value on a child's life, compensating survivors for dignitary harm in open-market terms)
This sourceThe taboo trade-off: placing a sacred value into the same comparison frame as a secular one (a price on a child, a market in organs) provokes revulsion rather than negotiation, with the defining test being willingness to weigh at all rather than magnitude of value; protected-values reasoning transfers to negotiation and policy, predicting which goods cannot be monetized without backlash and why violation registers as contamination rather than damage.
- Modern psychological research (Tetlock, Fiske) extends the concept to taboo trade-offs — the resistance to pricing or quantifying things in domains where such valuation is treated as morally abhorrent (paying to skip the line ahead of a dying person, putting a monetary value on a child's life, compensating survivors for dignitary harm in open-market terms)
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