Compassion fade and the challenge of environmental conservation
Compassion shown towards victims often decreases as the number of individuals in need of aid increases, identifiability of the victims decreases, and the proportion of victims helped shrinks. Such ``compassion fade'' may hamper individual-level and collective responses to pressing large-sc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013-07-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/13/13321a/jdm13321a.pdf |