Blog Archive
2024
Youth-led Climate Activism: Moving From Pseudoinefficacy to Collective Efficacy, April 19, 2024
Is “Thank You” Enough?, by Sean Reilly and Mohammad Aldabbagh, April 17, 2024
The Costs Of Indifference, April 16, 2024
Mimesis: How Art Can Encourage Empathy, by Kacy Cheslek, April 11, 2024
Commemorations As Risk Reminders: Understanding History for Today, April 7, 2024
Remembering names beyond numbers, by Paul Slovic, April 7, 2024
Arab News Acknowledges Psychic Numbing Amidst the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Kacy Cheslek and Scott Slovic, April 5, 2024
The Role of Sound in Recognizing the Slow Violence of Carbon Extraction, by Steve Lemeshko, March 29, 2024
Understanding Habituation: Why We Overlook Horrors, March 27, 2024
Let’s Make Some Noise: The Power of Silence, March 21, 2024
Using AI to Amplify the Voices of Gun Violence Victims, by Kacy Cheslek and Steve Lemeshko, March 8, 2024
Rehumanizing the War in Ukraine with the “Three Names” Cards, by Steve Lemeshko, March 2, 2024
Echoes of Defiance: Navalny's Death Ignites Yulia Navalnaya's Call to Action, February 19, 2024
Loss Aversion in the Face of Climate Change, February 19, 2024
On Human Rights and the Israel-Hamas War, a conversation with University of Oregon Scholars, February 19, 2024
A Professor Risking His Life to Expose Genocide in Ukraine, February 9, 2024
Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter III, January 31, 2024
Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter II, January 29, 2024
Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter I, January 25, 2024
Why we're numb to the people killed in Israel and Gaza, January 17, 2024
2023
The New York Times on the Power of Stories, by Kacy Cheslek, November 21, 2023
Compassion Week 2023, by Maili Smith, September 13, 2023
Memorializing Emmett Till & The Power of an Open Casket, by Maili Smith, September 13, 2023
Artistic Depictions of Climate Change Challenging Politicization, by Lauren Hodges, August 28, 2023
Climbing the “Ladder of Abstraction” to Evoke Empathy, by Lauren Hodges, July 28, 2023
The Power of Photos to Raise Concern about Biodiversity Loss, by Maili Smith, July 6, 2023
Putin and the Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship: A Deadly Arithmetic of Compassion, by Lauren Hodges, June 30, 2023
Two Tragedies at Sea, Two Different Responses Understood through the Arithmetic of Compassion, by Maili Smith, June 26, 2023
Narrative Medicine Writing Saved My Sanity, by Lauren Hodges, June 23, 2023
Uncovering the Legacy of Genocide through Audio-Storytelling, by Maili Smith, June 8, 2023
Using Islander Stories to Discuss Sea-Level Rise, by Lauren Hodges, May 25, 2023
Forget Me Not: A Lesson About Valuing Lives of the Many and the Few, by Paul Slovic, May 18, 2023
Photographing Vulnerability: Trans-scalar Articulations of Precarity from the Shorelines of Kerala, By V.K. Karthika, May 16, 2023
How to Help Victims of the Turkey and Syria Earthquake, February 14, 2023
Vladimir Putin’s Virtuous Violence, by Paul Slovic, February 5, 2023
2022
Compassion Week 2022, December 27, 2022
Harming Many People is Easier than Harming One, December 27, 2022
There Are Recognized Ways to Prevent Genocide, December 2, 2022
The Soul Box Project, by Anna Van Boven and Karla Niehus, October 12, 2022
Applying the Arithmetic of Compassion to the Plight of Refugees, by Scott Slovic, October 10, 2022
Radio Health Journal Story on Arithmetic of Compassion, by Anna Van Boven, September 27, 2022
The Uyghur Genocide and the Prominence Effect, by Anna Van Boven, September 19, 2022
50 Year Anniversary of “The Terror of War,” by Anna Van Boven, September 16, 2022
A Washington Post Article on Ways to Overcome Hope Fatigue, September 14, 2022
Losing Sight of Piecemeal Progress: Negative Lumping Creates Pseudoinefficacy, by Anna Van Boven, September 7, 2022
Addressing Early Warning of Genocide, July 25, 2022
Around the O interviews Paul Slovic on gun violence, June 14, 2022
A New York Times Report on Gun Violence and Psychic Numbing, June 1, 2022
Sharing the Stories of Victims of Persecution in China, by Andrew Quist, March 30, 2022
Portraits of Citizens in Ukraine, March 23, 2022
Communicating Trans-Species Empathy: An Interview with Amy Donovan, by Scott Slovic, March 18, 2022
New Report from US Holocaust Memorial Museum Contains Recommendations for the Prevention of Future Atrocities, March 3, 2022
Tigray: Testimony from Afar, February 4, 2022
Pandemic Apathy, January 24, 2022
Another Brazil is Possible: A Powerful Image of Hope from the Zo'é People, by Marcos Colón, January 14, 2022
Helping Refugees Starving in Poland’s Icy Border Forests Is Illegal—But It’s Not the Real Crime, by Anna Alboth, January 5, 2022
2021
Marking Lives COVID-19 Exhibition Catalog Now Available: Recording Private and Collective Responses to the Pandemic, by Scott Slovic, December 30, 2021
Statistics: A Short Story, by Rose Sebastian, December 16, 2021
Remembering Katie Jay Scott and Gabriel Stauring, December 1, 2021
The Prominence Effect and the Torture of Majid Khan, by Andrew Quist, November 18, 2021
Holocaust Denialism Has No Place in Our Schools, by Andrew Quist, October 22, 2021
Normalizing Assad Risks Future Atrocities, by Andrew Quist, October 20, 2021
670,000 Flags Placed at the National Mall to Honor Covid-19 Victims, September 24, 2021
A Proposed Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity, September 17, 2021
Hurricane Ida and The Need for Better Climate Communication, by David M. Markowitz, September 3, 2021
Hope Died In Afghanistan, by Gregory H. Stanton, August 31, 2021
Goudougoudou, by Paul Jeffrey, August 18, 2021
The Different Ways We Judge Risk in a Pandemic, August 6, 2021
Childhood Malnutrition and the Arithmetic of Compassion: An Interview with Sharman Apt Russell, by Scott Slovic, May 19, 2021
Paul and Scott Slovic on Public Health On Call, April 16, 2021
As refugee needs surge, the UNHCR budget tries to keep pace, by Alex Garinther, April 2, 2021
Our failed response to genocide: Why states and citizens don’t do more to prevent mass atrocities, by Eyal Mayroz, March 30, 2021
Paul Slovic on The Decision Education Podcast, March 25, 2021
Roméo Dallaire on the Genocide in China, by Andrew Quist, March 16, 2021
An Ongoing Genocide, by Andrew Quist, March 10, 2021
Genocide and Mass Atrocities in China, Myanmar, and Ethiopia, by Andrew Quist, March 4, 2021
A Morning Show Interview with Paul Slovic, February 15, 2021
The Marking Lives Covid-19 Project, by Elizabeth Awalt, February 12, 2021
Forgotten Suffering in Yemen, February 11, 2021
Psychologist Paul Slovic on the "Hidden Brain" Podcast, February 4, 2021
How I Resist Psychic Numbing, by Mark C. Hackett, January 21, 2021
2020
The Gulf Between Compassion and Chaos, by David Markowitz, December 16, 2020
An ICU Nurse's Perspective on COVID-19, December 11, 2020
The Overlooked Threat of Nuclear War, by Andrew Quist, October 16, 2020
Confronting the Deadly Arithmetic of Compassion, August 25, 2020
Why We Care Less When More People Die, August 12, 2020
Who Cares About Human Rights? by Alex Garinther and Andrew Quist, July 31, 2020
Empathy for Underserved, Under-represented, Voiceless Communities, by Scott Slovic, July 30, 2020
Forced Organ Harvesting and Torture in China, by Andrew Quist, July 23, 2020
Psychic Numbing and Security Prominence Are Killing Thousands of Americans, by Paul Slovic, July 13, 2020
Will Trump’s Strategy of Hoping Americans Become Numb to the Pandemic Work?, by Andrew Quist, July 6, 2020
Finding the Passion in Compassion: Your Social Justice Soul, by David M. Markowitz, June 30, 2020
What Can We Learn from the Pandemic? Environmental Humanities Scholars Offer Insights and Actions, by Scott Slovic, June 15, 2020
Lies, Cynicism, and the Asymmetry of Trust: How a Documentary Can Damage a Movement . . . or Not, by Scott Slovic, May 13, 2020
The Way Ahead, by Scott Slovic, May 5, 2020
Psychic Numbing and the Coronavirus, by Andrew Quist, April 2, 2020
The Coronavirus, Climate Change, and Exponential Growth, by Andrew Quist, March 26, 2020
Overcoming Numbing to Save the Environment, by Andrew Quist, March 4, 2020
2019
Confronting the Horror, Staying Alive, by Eric Reeves, December 30, 2019
Using Visual and Auditory Art to Convey the Scale of Nuclear Arms, by Andrew Quist, December 20, 2019
How Life Adversity Can Make Us Resistant to Psychic Numbing, by Andrew Quist, November 22, 2019
Poverty Retold: Why Narratives Matter for Economic Mobility, by Allison Yates-Berg, October 31, 2019
Why Do We Ignore Existential Risks? By Andrew Quist, October 25, 2019
The Problem with Proportionality in War, by Andrew Quist, July 11, 2019
Homestead: The Largest U.S. For-Profit Detention Facility for Migrant Children, by Anne Bridgman, July 9, 2019
Another Heartbreaking Photograph Grabs the Public’s Attention, but Will It Cause Us to Solve the Crisis at the Border? By Andrew Quist, June 28, 2019
The Girl Who Smiled Beads and the Experience of Genocide, by Andrew Quist, June 19, 2019
Too Small, Too Slow: Making Toxicity Poignant Through Poetry, by Scott Slovic, June 6, 2019
Overcoming Pseudoinefficacy with the Collective Aggregation Effect, by Andrew Quist, May 30, 2019
Psychic Numbing and the Environment, by Andrew Quist, May 23, 2019
The Children Are on Climate Strike, by Anne Michiels van Kessenich, May 16, 2019
The Effects of Psychological Biases and Social Media on Nuclear War Decisions, by Andrew Quist, May 9, 2019
Teaching Decision-Making Skills in the Classroom, By Andrew Quist and Robin Gregory, May 2, 2019
“Songs to Affect and Balance the World”: Poetry, Place, Home, by T.S. McMillin, April 25, 2019
Building Narrative Empathy Through Storytelling, April 19, 2019
“Let me tell your story”: A Review of A Private War, by Scott Slovic, April 11, 2019
Remembering Rwanda, by Andrew Quist, April 5, 2019
Using Data Visualization to Get People to Care, by Andrew Quist, March 29, 2019
Dr. Tom Catena’s Extraordinary Example, by Andrew Quist, March 26, 2019
Security Prominence Trumps the FY 2020 Budget Proposal, by Alex Garinther, March 19, 2019
How Hiding Casualties from Drone Strikes Betrays American Values, by Andrew Quist, March 14, 2019
Cognitive Bias Prevents Us from Tackling Climate Change, by Andrew Quist, February 22, 2019
China’s Cruel Internment of the Uyghurs Must Not Go Unnoticed, by Andrew Quist, February 15, 2019
The Effects of Dehumanizing Visual Portrayals of Refugees, by Andrew Quist, February 8, 2019
Uprising in Sudan, by Andrew Quist, January 18, 2019
2018
Einstein and Szent-Györgyi on Nuclear Weapons, by Andrew Quist, December 21, 2018
“Don’t Tell Me, I Don’t Want to Know”: How Information Avoidance Can Keep Us Insulated From Important Social Problems, by Alex Garinther, December 7, 2018
Why Are We Outraged Over Khashoggi’s Murder, But Indifferent to Deaths in Yemen? By Andrew Quist, December 6, 2018
The Myth of “I Can't Make a Difference,” by Andrew Quist, November 13, 2018
Autonomous Weapons, by Andrew Quist, October 23, 2018
Chiune Sugihara's Courage Saved 6,000 Lives, October 16, 2018
Queen Rania of Jordan on Psychic Numbing and Compassion, by Andrew Quist, October 10, 2018
The More Who Die the Less We Care, October 8, 2018
Factfulness, By Andrew Quist, September 19, 2018
Ai Weiwei's Human Flow, by Andrew Quist, September 13, 2018
Open Your Eyes, by Paul Slovic, September 11, 2018
Compassion Week, August 8, 2018
TEDx at Kakuma Camp, June 12, 2018
Red Lines, April 18, 2018
Genocidal Violence Accelerates in Darfur, by Andrew Quist, April 13, 2018
Why Do We Ignore the War in Syria? By Andrew Quist, March 16, 2018
Representing Victims of School Gun Violence, by Andrew Quist, March 14, 2018
Why Do We Mourn for Parkland but Ignore Genocides? By Andrew Quist, March 2, 2018
Psychic Numbing and the Recent Atrocities in Syria, by Andrew Quist, February 21, 2018
The Civil March for Aleppo, by Andrew Quist, January 23, 2018
Overcoming Psychic Numbing Through Narratives: A Review of Numbers and Nerves, January 22, 2018
2017
Does Trump Understand What It Means to “Totally Destroy North Korea”? November 22, 2017
The Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar, by Andrew Quist, October 24, 2017
Psychic Numbing and Famine, by Andrew Quist, September 13, 2017
Making Compassion Count, July 14, 2017
Combating the Lord’s Resistance Army: A Humanitarian Success Story, June 29, 2017
Identifying Donor Recipients in Media Reports Increases Willingness to Donate, June 12, 2017
Overcoming Psychic Numbing Through Graphic Novels and Games, by Andrew Quist, June 12, 2017
Harnessing the Power of Emotion: A Review of Numbers and Nerves, January 26, 2017
The Ebb and Flow of Empathic Response to Iconic Photographs, January 12, 2017
2016
Genocide in South Sudan, December 21, 2016
How to Help the Syrian People, December 19, 2016
Is Empathy Flawed? By Andrew Quist, December 16, 2016
Christmas in the Nuba Mountains: A Day of Celebration and Potential Death, by Samuel Totten, December 14, 2016
COP21 and Business as Usual, October 19, 2016
Climate Change Is Genocide for Island Nations, October 19, 2016
Drone Footage Shows the Scale of the Destruction of Aleppo, October 18, 2016
The Arithmetic of Compassion – NY Times Op-Ed, October 17, 2016
September on Jessore Road, by Scott Slovic, October 17, 2016
Why Statistics on Human Tragedy Fail to Arouse Compassion, October 10, 2016
One Picture Broke the Heart of the World, October 3, 2016
We Care Greatly About Protecting a Single Person in Distress, Particularly If They Have a Face and a Name and Happen to Look Like Us, October 3, 2016
Psychic Numbing, by Paul Slovic, September 26, 2016
Scott Slovic Presents at the Perpignan Ecopoetics Conference, August 3, 2016