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Browsing Decision Research Faculty Works by Author "Gergory, Robin"

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Informing Decisions to Prevent Genocide

Vastfjall, Daniel; Slovic, Paul; Gergory, Robin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)

This paper describes a psychological phenomenon called psychic numbing that devalues lives when many are at stake and thus enables political leaders to neglect mass suffering, in violation of our professed humanitarian ...