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Compassion Fade: Affect and Charity Are Greatest for a Single Child in Need

Charitable giving in 2013 exceeded $300 billion, but why do we respond to some life-saving causes while ignoring others? In our first two studies, we demonstrated that valuation of lives is associated with affective feelings (self-reported and psychophysiological) and that a decline in compassion ma...

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Autores principales: Västfjäll, Daniel, Slovic, Paul, Mayorga, Marcus, Peters, Ellen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24940738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100115