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-scale crises....

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Published in:	Judgment and Decision Making
Main Authors:	Ezra M. Markowitz, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Sara D. Hodges
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2013-07-01
Subjects:	decision-making identifiable victim sustainability prosocial behavior compassion
Online Access:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S193029750000526X/type/journal_article