Person
Paul Slovic
Researcher — identifiable victim effect / psychic numbing
Researcher whose donation-behavior experiments found people give more to help one identifiable individual in need than a larger group, and that donations fail to scale with the actual size of a crisis — a phenomenon known as the identifiable victim effect or psychic numbing. Referenced, not interviewed, in this episode. See Slovic Identifiable-Victim Donation Studies.
Discussed in
- Episode 40 — 40- What Makes A Great Story