Markowitz, Ezra M.; Slovic, Paul; Vastfjall, Daniel; … - In: Judgment and Decision Making 8 (2013) 4, pp. 397-406
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 hamper individual-level and collective responses to pressing large-scale...