The psychology of the unthinkable: Taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates, and heretical counterfactuals

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 853-870

  Tetlock, Philip E ^a   Kristel, Orie V ^b   Elson, S Beth ^b   Green, Melanie C ^b   Lerner, Jennifer S ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TABOO;

AFFECT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; TABOO;

EID: 0034185445     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.78.5.853     Document Type: Article

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