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| Title |
Compassion Fade: Affect and Charity Are Greatest for a Single Child in Need
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0100115 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Daniel Västfjäll, Paul Slovic, Marcus Mayorga, Ellen Peters |
| Abstract |
Charitable giving in 2013 exceeded $300 billion, but why do we respond to some life-saving causes while ignoring others? In our first two studies, we demonstrated that valuation of lives is associated with affective feelings (self-reported and psychophysiological) and that a decline in compassion may begin with the second endangered life. In Study 3, this fading of compassion was reversed by describing multiple lives in a more unitary fashion. Study 4 extended our findings to loss-frame scenarios. Our capacity to feel sympathy for people in need appears limited, and this form of compassion fatigue can lead to apathy and inaction, consistent with what is seen repeatedly in response to many large-scale human and environmental catastrophes. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 45 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 9% |
| Japan | 2 | 4% |
| Belgium | 1 | 2% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Comoros | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Unknown | 20 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 35 | 78% |
| Scientists | 8 | 18% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 223 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 219 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 38 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 35 | 16% |
| Researcher | 20 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 7% |
| Other | 27 | 12% |
| Unknown | 45 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 88 | 39% |
| Social Sciences | 23 | 10% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 11 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 10 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 31 | 14% |
| Unknown | 53 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 770. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 November 2023.
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#409
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#143
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#7
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