Sympathy and Callousness¶
Small, D. A., Loewenstein, G., & Slovic, P. (2007). Sympathy and Callousness: The Impact of Deliberative Thought on Donations to Identifiable and Statistical Victims. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102(2), 143-153.
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Mechanisms¶
- Counter-Narrative Red Team
- Its strength is surfacing, before release, the counter-frame an opponent will deploy and the exact spot where a sympathetic case will mislead about the base rate — the identifiable victim dynamic where one vivid person moves an audience more than the statistics the person is meant to represent
This sourceShows that identifiable victims evoke stronger affect and giving than statistical descriptions of victims.
- Its strength is surfacing, before release, the counter-frame an opponent will deploy and the exact spot where a sympathetic case will mislead about the base rate — the identifiable victim dynamic where one vivid person moves an audience more than the statistics the person is meant to represent
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