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Affective and Moral Roots of Environmental Stewardship: The Role of Obligation, Gratitude and Compassion

Markowitz, Ezra (University of Oregon, 2012)

Environmental issues such as climate change and habitat loss pose significant challenges to existing political, legal and financial institutions. As these challenges have become clearer in recent years, interest in ...
Compassion fade and the challenge of environmental conservation

Markowitz, Ezra; Slovic, Paul; Vastfjall, Daniel; Hodges, Sara (Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2013-07)

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 ...