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Human Compassion Surprisingly Limited, Study Finds

LiveScience

Posted: Feb 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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Russell Blackford • • Feb 25, 2007

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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