Cryder, Cynthia E.; Loewenstein, George; Scheines, Richard - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 120 (2013) 1, pp. 15-23
Recent research finds that people respond more generously to individual victims described in detail than to equivalent statistical victims described in general terms. We propose that this “identified victim effect” is one manifestation of a more general phenomenon: a positive influence of...