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Imagining Human Rights
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Imagining Human Rights

by Susanne Kaul, David Kim
September 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
235 pages
7h 36m
English
De Gruyter
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Paul Slovic and Daniel Västfjäll

The More Who Die, the Less We Care Psychic Numbing and Genocide31

A defining element of catastrophes is the magnitude of their harmful consequences. To help society prevent or mitigate damage from catastrophes, immense effort and technological sophistication are often employed to assess and communicate the size and scope of potential or actual losses. This effort assumes that people can understand the resulting numbers and act on them appropriately.

However, recent behavioral research casts doubt on this fundamental assumption. Many people do not understand large numbers. Indeed, large numbers have been found to lack meaning and to be underweighted in decisions unless they convey affect (feeling). As a result, ...

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ISBN: 9783110376616