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Neural Underpinnings of the Identifiable Victim Effect: Affect Shifts Preferences for Giving

Genevsky, Alexander; Vastfjall, Daniel; Slovic, Paul; Knutson, Brian (Society for Neuroscience, 2013-10-23)

The “identifiable victim effect” refers to peoples’ tendency to preferentially give to identified versus anonymous victims of misfortune, and has been proposed to partly depend on affect. By soliciting charitable donations ...