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Human Compassion Surprisingly Limited, Study Finds

February 22, 2007

(By Sara Goudarzi)

While a person’s accidental death reported on the evening news can bring viewers to tears, mass killings reported as statistics fail to tickle human emotions, a new study finds.

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Posted by Russell Blackford on 02/25 at 09:15 AM

I’m not sure why this is surprising to anyone. Isn’t it exactly what we would have expected, both from evolutionary reasoning and from the existing data on what people find salient?

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