Taboo proposals contaminate the self and provoke defensive moral reactions.
Evidence
Tetlock et al. advanced a sacred value protection model (SVPM) that asserted that, when sacred values come under secular assault, people struggle to protect their private selves and public identities from moral contamination by the impure thoughts and deeds implied in the taboo proposals. The SVPM can be captured in three interrelated sets of propositions: moral-outrage hypotheses, moral-cleansing hypotheses, and reality-constraint hypotheses. — Philip E. Tetlock, Thinking the unthinkable, 7
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the sacred value protection model and its three hypothesis families.
- XREF: Directly serves the reader’s research on manufactured enemies and taboo cognitions. — connects to: Uncommitted taboo thoughts can contaminate and trigger symbolic moral cleansing — Philip E. Tetlock, Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values…, 13; Projecting badness onto others protects the self from internal contradiction. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 646; Merely lingering over a taboo trade-off provokes moral outrage independent of the choice made. — Philip E. Tetlock, Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values…, 25
Related
- Uncommitted taboo thoughts can contaminate and trigger symbolic moral cleansing (similarity 0.85)
- Philip E. Tetlock — Thinking the unthinkable sacred values and taboo cognitions (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Uncommitted taboo thoughts can contaminate and trigger symbolic moral cleansing
#corroborates(0.90) — Philip E. Tetlock, Thinking the unthinkable, 13 - Merely lingering over a taboo trade-off provokes moral outrage independent of the choice made.
#corroborates(0.82) — Philip E. Tetlock, Thinking the unthinkable, 25 - Projecting badness onto others protects the self from internal contradiction.
#expands(0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 646