Taboo trade-offs: Reactions to transactions that transgress the spheres of justice

Political Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 255-297

  Fiske, Alan Page ^a   Tetlock, Philip E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Decision making; Fungibility; Incommensurables; Justice; Relational theory; Revised value pluralism model; Spheres of exchange; Trade offs; Transactions; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031525282     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00058     Document Type: Article

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