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By: The Situation of Human Rights « The Situationist

The Situation of Human Rights « The Situationist — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:02:27 +0000

[...] Too Many To Care [...]

By: Sample of Situationist Posts «

Sample of Situationist Posts « — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:25:59 +0000

[...] Too Many To Care (by Paul Slovic) [...]

By: Another Century of Genocide? « The Situationist

Another Century of Genocide? « The Situationist — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:04:37 +0000

[...] this year I posted an overview of my recent research demonstrating psychological mechanisms that can lead good, compassionate [...]

By: An Apathy Epidemic « The Situationist

An Apathy Epidemic « The Situationist — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:10:43 +0000

[...] Staff on July 18th, 2007 Situationist Contributor Paul Slovic recently contributed a post, “Too Many To Care,” about how the human mind quickly becomes numb to suffering as the number of people [...]

By: The Situation in New Orleans « The Situationist

The Situation in New Orleans « The Situationist — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:31:56 +0000

[...] The size of the challenge has only come to seem greater with time, perhaps leaving us even less willing to look at it closely. The possibility that “race” matters in this country has slipped back into comfortable (for [...]

By: The psychology of stopping genocide - how 'never again' turned into 'again and again' « If you only read one thing this week…

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:52:34 +0000

[...] The psychology of stopping genocide – how ‘never again’ turned into ‘again and again’ Paul Slovic writes a fascinating article for the blog ‘The Situationalist” on phenomenon that people are more likely to act to assist an individual than a group. ““If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” This statement uttered by Mother Teresa captures a powerful and deeply unsettling insight into human nature: Most people are caring and will exert great effort to rescue “the one” whose plight comes to their attention. But these same people often become numbly indifferent to the plight of “the one” who is “one of many” in a much greater problem.” Entitled ‘Too Many to Care’, you can read the rest here. [...]

By: Too Many To Care - World of Psychology

Too Many To Care - World of Psychology — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:09:23 +0000

[...] the post Too Many To Care, Paul Slovic begins a series in The Situationist on the psychology of compassion. “If I look [...]

By: Psychology and Crime News / If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:00:30 +0000

[...] but it is so good, with such high quality posts from such high calibre scholars. Here is another fascinating and sobering post, this time from Paul [...]

By: Pooh’s Think » Blog Archive » The Situationist: Too Many to Care? But Are We Prepared to Die?

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:18:30 +0000

[...] Right now it is hard to just keep up with my reading of The Situationist; they keep pumping it out at a good rate. I have not even yet read this fabulous looking post. So to back up a bit for now, check out the post called “Too Many to Care”. [...]