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RT @SethBaum: There is a saying “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic”. Human cognition processes small losses more…
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There is a saying “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic”. Human cognition processes small losses more emotionally and large losses more rationally. This causes what distinguished risk psychologist @PaulatDR calls “psychic numbing”:
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@ChrisCrandall16 @jayvanbavel That said, I do think the new paper looks like a cool extension of previous work both on 'psychic numbing' (https://t.co/hxk1vI9R32) and the 'scope-severity paradox' (https://t.co/mouSBjn6ng), using large-scale methods to stud
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“If I Look at the Mass I Will Never Act: Psychic Numbing and Genocide” By Paul Slovic https://t.co/utQ9kv8z1B