People are more moved to act by individual stories of suffering than by statistics of mass tragedy. This phenomenon suggests a single identifiable victim elicits stronger emotional responses than abstract numbers.
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Psychologists point out that defining empathy as the act of stepping into someone's mind to experience their feeling can lead to some tricky moral dilemmas.
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