Blog Archive
Explore our blog archive, where you can find all articles organized by year.
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2024
- Nov 15, 2024 Numbing Toward Future Generations: Why We Struggle to Care, and How We Can Change Nov 15, 2024
- Nov 12, 2024 Risk Reminders and the Power of Visual Communication Nov 12, 2024
- Nov 7, 2024 Northern Spotted Owl vs. Barred Owl: The Ethical Conundrum of Compassionate Conservation Nov 7, 2024
- Nov 5, 2024 Peanut the Squirrel and the Power of Compassion Nov 5, 2024
- Oct 25, 2024 Focusing on What Matters: How Meditation Fuels Activism and Empathy Oct 25, 2024
- Oct 25, 2024 Is Space Exploration Also A Distraction? Oct 25, 2024
- Oct 25, 2024 Breaking the algorithm: The rise of 'algospeak' in social media Oct 25, 2024
- Oct 17, 2024 Pollution as Environmental Violence Oct 17, 2024
- Oct 14, 2024 How to spot hurricane misinformation Oct 14, 2024
- Oct 10, 2024 Virtual Reality as an Empathy-Building Tool Oct 10, 2024
- Oct 8, 2024 People are not numbers Oct 8, 2024
- Oct 4, 2024 Sudan: A Need for Compassion Oct 4, 2024
- Oct 1, 2024 Facing the storm: Hurricane Helene and our changing climate Oct 1, 2024
- Sep 27, 2024 The Pygmy Hippo: viral fame and real-life consequences Sep 27, 2024
- Sep 23, 2024 The Taylor Swift Effect Sep 23, 2024
- Sep 19, 2024 Indigenous Knowledge and Colonial Violence in Kaipara Moana, New Zealand Sep 19, 2024
- Sep 17, 2024 Public Perceptions of Immigrants: The Challenge of Raising Awareness of Climate Change as a Reason for Migration Sep 17, 2024
- Sep 12, 2024 Indigenous Land Rights and Colonial Violence in Belize Sep 12, 2024
- Sep 11, 2024 Para- guides and assistants: the unsung athletes Sep 11, 2024
- Sep 9, 2024 The best Paralympics’ moments Sep 9, 2024
- Sep 5, 2024 Paralympic Games: Rethinking disability, diversity and human potential Sep 5, 2024
- Sep 3, 2024 Climate Sabotage: A Necessary Evil or a Dangerous Tactic? Sep 3, 2024
- Aug 29, 2024 Not Playing Games: how the Paralympics Games challenge social norms Aug 29, 2024
- Aug 16, 2024 The volcano is there but you can't see it Aug 16, 2024
- Aug 16, 2024 The Olympics and their impact beyond sports Aug 16, 2024
- Jul 30, 2024 The Single Vote Issue and the Prominence Effect Jul 30, 2024
- Jul 17, 2024 Emotions and Risk Perception in "Don't Look Up" Jul 17, 2024
- Jul 11, 2024 Visualizing absence: Fostering compassion through photography Jul 11, 2024
- Jul 8, 2024 Looking for new ways to see our oceans Jul 8, 2024
- Jul 3, 2024 The Prominence Effect: How Our Minds Deceive Us About Important Decisions Jul 3, 2024
- May 26, 2024 Psychological Barriers and Humor May 26, 2024
- May 24, 2024 The Builders' Movement: Breaking Through Political Polarization May 24, 2024
- May 24, 2024 “Bright words:” finding common ground in environmental negotiations May 24, 2024
- May 17, 2024 How Art Can Encourage Social Change May 17, 2024
- May 10, 2024 The Zone Of Interest: “You can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your ears” May 10, 2024
- May 10, 2024 How do we know what animals are really feeling? May 10, 2024
- May 5, 2024 Documenting Coal Mining in Jharia, India, through Photography May 5, 2024
- Apr 29, 2024 Music For Climate Action Apr 29, 2024
- Apr 29, 2024 There was a genocide here: my visit to the S21 Museum in Cambodia Apr 29, 2024
- Apr 29, 2024 Historical Agreement Reached in the Snake River Dam Conversation Apr 29, 2024
- Apr 19, 2024 Youth-led Climate Activism: Moving From Pseudoinefficacy to Collective Efficacy Apr 19, 2024
- Apr 17, 2024 Is “Thank You” Enough? Apr 17, 2024
- Apr 16, 2024 The Costs Of Indifference Apr 16, 2024
- Apr 11, 2024 Mimesis: How Art Can Encourage Empathy Apr 11, 2024
- Apr 7, 2024 Commemorations As Risk Reminders: Understanding History for Today Apr 7, 2024
- Apr 7, 2024 Remembering names beyond numbers Apr 7, 2024
- Apr 5, 2024 Arab News Acknowledges Psychic Numbing Amidst the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Apr 5, 2024
- Mar 29, 2024 The Role of Sound in Recognizing the Slow Violence of Carbon Extraction Mar 29, 2024
- Mar 27, 2024 Understanding Habituation: Why We Overlook Horrors Mar 27, 2024
- Mar 21, 2024 Let’s Make Some Noise: The Power of Silence Mar 21, 2024
- Mar 8, 2024 Using AI to Amplify the Voices of Gun Violence Victims Mar 8, 2024
- Mar 2, 2024 Rehumanizing the War in Ukraine with the “Three Names” Cards Mar 2, 2024
- Feb 19, 2024 Echoes of Defiance: Navalny's Death Ignites Yulia Navalnaya's Call to Action Feb 19, 2024
- Feb 19, 2024 Loss Aversion in the Face of Climate Change Feb 19, 2024
- Feb 19, 2024 On Human Rights and the Israel-Hamas War, a conversation with University of Oregon Scholars Feb 19, 2024
- Feb 9, 2024 A Professor Risking His Life to Expose Genocide in Ukraine Feb 9, 2024
- Jan 31, 2024 Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter III Jan 31, 2024
- Jan 29, 2024 Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter II Jan 29, 2024
- Jan 25, 2024 Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter I Jan 25, 2024
- Jan 17, 2024 Why we're numb to the people killed in Israel and Gaza Jan 17, 2024
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2023
- Nov 21, 2023 The New York Times on the Power of Stories Nov 21, 2023
- Sep 13, 2023 Compassion Week 2023 Sep 13, 2023
- Sep 13, 2023 Memorializing Emmett Till & The Power of an Open Casket Sep 13, 2023
- Aug 28, 2023 Artistic Depictions of Climate Change Challenging Politicization Aug 28, 2023
- Jul 28, 2023 Climbing the “Ladder of Abstraction” to Evoke Empathy Jul 28, 2023
- Jul 6, 2023 The Power of Photos to Raise Concern about Biodiversity Loss Jul 6, 2023
- Jun 30, 2023 Putin and the Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship: A Deadly Arithmetic of Compassion Jun 30, 2023
- Jun 26, 2023 Two Tragedies at Sea, Two Different Responses Understood through the Arithmetic of Compassion Jun 26, 2023
- Jun 23, 2023 Narrative Medicine Writing Saved My Sanity Jun 23, 2023
- Jun 8, 2023 Uncovering the Legacy of Genocide through Audio-Storytelling Jun 8, 2023
- May 25, 2023 Using Islander Stories to Discuss Sea-Level Rise May 25, 2023
- May 18, 2023 Forget Me Not: A Lesson About Valuing Lives of the Many and the Few May 18, 2023
- May 16, 2023 Photographing Vulnerability: Trans-scalar Articulations of Precarity from the Shorelines of Kerala May 16, 2023
- Feb 14, 2023 How to Help Victims of the Turkey and Syria Earthquake Feb 14, 2023
- Feb 5, 2023 Vladimir Putin’s Virtuous Violence Feb 5, 2023
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2022
- Dec 27, 2022 Compassion Week 2022 Dec 27, 2022
- Dec 27, 2022 Harming Many People is Easier than Harming One Dec 27, 2022
- Dec 2, 2022 There Are Recognized Ways to Prevent Genocide Dec 2, 2022
- Oct 12, 2022 The Soul Box Project Oct 12, 2022
- Oct 10, 2022 Applying the Arithmetic of Compassion to the Plight of Refugees Oct 10, 2022
- Sep 27, 2022 Radio Health Journal Story on Arithmetic of Compassion Sep 27, 2022
- Sep 19, 2022 The Uyghur Genocide and the Prominence Effect Sep 19, 2022
- Sep 16, 2022 50 Year Anniversary of “The Terror of War” Sep 16, 2022
- Sep 14, 2022 A Washington Post Article on Ways to Overcome Hope Fatigue Sep 14, 2022
- Sep 7, 2022 Losing Sight of Piecemeal Progress: Negative Lumping Creates Pseudoinefficacy Sep 7, 2022
- Jul 25, 2022 Addressing Early Warning of Genocide Jul 25, 2022
- Jun 14, 2022 Around the O interviews Paul Slovic on gun violence Jun 14, 2022
- Jun 1, 2022 A New York Times Report on Gun Violence and Psychic Numbing Jun 1, 2022
- Mar 30, 2022 Sharing the Stories of Victims of Persecution in China Mar 30, 2022
- Mar 23, 2022 Portraits of Citizens in Ukraine Mar 23, 2022
- Mar 18, 2022 Communicating Trans-Species Empathy: An Interview with Amy Donovan Mar 18, 2022
- Mar 3, 2022 New Report from US Holocaust Memorial Museum Contains Recommendations for the Prevention of Future Atrocities Mar 3, 2022
- Feb 4, 2022 Tigray: Testimony from Afar Feb 4, 2022
- Jan 24, 2022 Pandemic Apathy Jan 24, 2022
- Jan 14, 2022 Another Brazil is Possible: A Powerful Image of Hope from the Zo'é People Jan 14, 2022
- Jan 5, 2022 Helping Refugees Starving in Poland’s Icy Border Forests Is Illegal—But It’s Not the Real Crime Jan 5, 2022
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2021
- Dec 30, 2021 Marking Lives COVID-19 Exhibition Catalog Now Available: Recording Private and Collective Responses to the Pandemic Dec 30, 2021
- Dec 16, 2021 Statistics: A Short Story Dec 16, 2021
- Dec 1, 2021 Remembering Katie Jay Scott and Gabriel Stauring Dec 1, 2021
- Nov 30, 2021 Paul Slovic Receives the Franklin Institute’s 2022 Bower Award for Achievement in Science Nov 30, 2021
- Nov 18, 2021 The Prominence Effect and the Torture of Majid Khan Nov 18, 2021
- Oct 22, 2021 Holocaust Denialism Has No Place in Our Schools Oct 22, 2021
- Oct 20, 2021 Normalizing Assad Risks Future Atrocities Oct 20, 2021
- Sep 24, 2021 670,000 Flags Placed at the National Mall to Honor Covid-19 Victims Sep 24, 2021
- Sep 17, 2021 A Proposed Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Sep 17, 2021
- Sep 3, 2021 Hurricane Ida and The Need for Better Climate Communication Sep 3, 2021
- Aug 31, 2021 Hope Died in Afghanistan Aug 31, 2021
- Aug 18, 2021 Goudougoudou Aug 18, 2021
- Aug 13, 2021 Why Hasn't the Biden Administration Declared the Treatment of the Rohingya a Genocide? Aug 13, 2021
- Aug 6, 2021 The Different Ways We Judge Risk in a Pandemic Aug 6, 2021
- May 19, 2021 Childhood Malnutrition and the Arithmetic of Compassion: An Interview with Sharman Apt Russell May 19, 2021
- Apr 16, 2021 Paul and Scott Slovic on Public Health On Call Apr 16, 2021
- Apr 2, 2021 As refugee needs surge, the UNHCR budget tries to keep pace Apr 2, 2021
- Mar 30, 2021 Our failed response to genocide: Why states and citizens don’t do more to prevent mass atrocities Mar 30, 2021
- Mar 25, 2021 Paul Slovic on The Decision Education Podcast Mar 25, 2021
- Mar 16, 2021 Roméo Dallaire on the Genocide in China Mar 16, 2021
- Mar 10, 2021 An Ongoing Genocide Mar 10, 2021
- Mar 4, 2021 Genocide and Mass Atrocities in China, Myanmar, and Ethiopia Mar 4, 2021
- Feb 15, 2021 A Morning Show Interview with Paul Slovic Feb 15, 2021
- Feb 12, 2021 The Marking Lives Covid-19 Project Feb 12, 2021
- Feb 11, 2021 Forgotten Suffering in Yemen Feb 11, 2021
- Feb 4, 2021 Psychologist Paul Slovic on the "Hidden Brain" Podcast Feb 4, 2021
- Jan 21, 2021 How I Resist Psychic Numbing Jan 21, 2021
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2020
- Dec 16, 2020 The Gulf Between Compassion and Chaos Dec 16, 2020
- Dec 11, 2020 An ICU Nurse's Perspective on COVID-19 Dec 11, 2020
- Oct 16, 2020 The Overlooked Threat of Nuclear War Oct 16, 2020
- Aug 25, 2020 Confronting the Deadly Arithmetic of Compassion Aug 25, 2020
- Aug 12, 2020 Why We Care Less When More People Die Aug 12, 2020
- Jul 31, 2020 Who Cares About Human Rights? Jul 31, 2020
- Jul 30, 2020 Empathy for Underserved, Under-represented, Voiceless Communities Jul 30, 2020
- Jul 23, 2020 Forced Organ Harvesting and Torture in China Jul 23, 2020
- Jul 13, 2020 Psychic Numbing and Security Prominence Are Killing Thousands of Americans Jul 13, 2020
- Jul 6, 2020 Will Trump’s Strategy of Hoping Americans Become Numb to the Pandemic Work? Jul 6, 2020
- Jun 30, 2020 Finding the Passion in Compassion: Your Social Justice Soul Jun 30, 2020
- Jun 15, 2020 What Can We Learn from the Pandemic? Environmental Humanities Scholars Offer Insights and Actions Jun 15, 2020
- May 13, 2020 Lies, Cynicism, and the Asymmetry of Trust: How a Documentary Can Damage a Movement . . . or Not May 13, 2020
- May 5, 2020 The Way Ahead May 5, 2020
- Apr 3, 2020 Psychic Numbing and the Coronavirus Apr 3, 2020
- Mar 26, 2020 The Coronavirus, Climate Change, and Exponential Growth Mar 26, 2020
- Mar 4, 2020 Overcoming Numbing to Save the Environment Mar 4, 2020
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2019
- Dec 30, 2019 Confronting the Horror, Staying Alive Dec 30, 2019
- Dec 20, 2019 Using Visual and Auditory Art to Convey the Scale of Nuclear Arms Dec 20, 2019
- Nov 22, 2019 How Life Adversity Can Make Us Resistant to Psychic Numbing Nov 22, 2019
- Oct 31, 2019 Poverty Retold: Why Narratives Matter for Economic Mobility Oct 31, 2019
- Oct 25, 2019 Why Do We Ignore Existential Risks? Oct 25, 2019
- Jul 11, 2019 The Problem with Proportionality in War Jul 11, 2019
- Jul 9, 2019 Homestead: The Largest U.S. For-Profit Detention Facility for Migrant Children Jul 9, 2019
- Jun 28, 2019 Another Heartbreaking Photograph Grabs the Public’s Attention, but Will It Cause Us to Solve the Crisis at the Border? Jun 28, 2019
- Jun 19, 2019 The Girl Who Smiled Beads and the Experience of Genocide Jun 19, 2019
- Jun 6, 2019 Too Small, Too Slow: Making Toxicity Poignant Through Poetry Jun 6, 2019
- May 30, 2019 Overcoming Pseudoinefficacy with the Collective Aggregation Effect May 30, 2019
- May 23, 2019 Psychic Numbing and the Environment May 23, 2019
- May 16, 2019 The Children Are on Climate Strike May 16, 2019
- May 9, 2019 The Effects of Psychological Biases and Social Media on Nuclear War Decisions May 9, 2019
- May 2, 2019 Teaching Decision-Making Skills in the Classroom May 2, 2019
- Apr 25, 2019 “Songs to Affect and Balance the World”: Poetry, Place, Home Apr 25, 2019
- Apr 19, 2019 Building Narrative Empathy Through Storytelling Apr 19, 2019
- Apr 11, 2019 “Let me tell your story”: A Review of A Private War Apr 11, 2019
- Apr 5, 2019 Remembering Rwanda Apr 5, 2019
- Mar 29, 2019 Using Data Visualization to Get People to Care Mar 29, 2019
- Mar 26, 2019 Dr. Tom Catena’s Extraordinary Example Mar 26, 2019
- Mar 19, 2019 Security Prominence Trumps the FY 2020 Budget Proposal Mar 19, 2019
- Mar 14, 2019 How Hiding Casualties from Drone Strikes Betrays American Values Mar 14, 2019
- Feb 22, 2019 Cognitive Bias Prevents Us from Tackling Climate Change Feb 22, 2019
- Feb 15, 2019 China’s Cruel Internment of the Uyghurs Must Not Go Unnoticed Feb 15, 2019
- Feb 8, 2019 The Effects of Dehumanizing Visual Portrayals of Refugees Feb 8, 2019
- Jan 18, 2019 Uprising in Sudan Jan 18, 2019
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2018
- Dec 21, 2018 Einstein and Szent-Györgyi on Nuclear Weapons Dec 21, 2018
- Dec 7, 2018 “Don’t Tell Me, I Don’t Want to Know”: How Information Avoidance Can Keep Us Insulated From Important Social Problems Dec 7, 2018
- Dec 6, 2018 Why Are We Outraged Over Khashoggi’s Murder, But Indifferent to Deaths in Yemen? Dec 6, 2018
- Nov 13, 2018 The Myth of “I Can't Make a Difference” Nov 13, 2018
- Oct 23, 2018 Autonomous Weapons Oct 23, 2018
- Oct 16, 2018 Chiune Sugihara's Courage Saved 6,000 Lives Oct 16, 2018
- Oct 10, 2018 Queen Rania of Jordan on Psychic Numbing and Compassion Oct 10, 2018
- Oct 8, 2018 The More Who Die the Less We Care Oct 8, 2018
- Sep 19, 2018 Factfulness Sep 19, 2018
- Sep 13, 2018 Ai Weiwei's Human Flow Sep 13, 2018
- Sep 11, 2018 Open Your Eyes Sep 11, 2018
- Aug 8, 2018 Compassion Week Aug 8, 2018
- Jun 12, 2018 TEDx at Kakuma Camp Jun 12, 2018
- Apr 18, 2018 Red Lines Apr 18, 2018
- Apr 13, 2018 Genocidal Violence Accelerates in Darfur Apr 13, 2018
- Mar 16, 2018 Why Do We Ignore the War in Syria? Mar 16, 2018
- Mar 14, 2018 Representing Victims of School Gun Violence Mar 14, 2018
- Mar 2, 2018 Why Do We Mourn for Parkland but Ignore Genocides? Mar 2, 2018
- Feb 21, 2018 Psychic Numbing and the Recent Atrocities in Syria Feb 21, 2018
- Jan 23, 2018 The Civil March for Aleppo Jan 23, 2018
- Jan 22, 2018 Overcoming Psychic Numbing Through Narratives: A Review of Numbers and Nerves Jan 22, 2018
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2017
- Nov 22, 2017 Does Trump Understand What It Means to “Totally Destroy North Korea”? Nov 22, 2017
- Oct 24, 2017 The Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis in Myanmar Oct 24, 2017
- Sep 13, 2017 Psychic Numbing and Famine Sep 13, 2017
- Jul 24, 2017 Making Compassion Count Jul 24, 2017
- Jun 29, 2017 Combating the Lord’s Resistance Army: A Humanitarian Success Story Jun 29, 2017
- Jun 12, 2017 Identifying Donor Recipients in Media Reports Increases Willingness to Donate Jun 12, 2017
- Jun 12, 2017 Overcoming Psychic Numbing Through Graphic Novels and Games Jun 12, 2017
- Jan 26, 2017 Harnessing the Power of Emotion: A Review of Numbers and Nerves Jan 26, 2017
- Jan 12, 2017 The Ebb and Flow of Empathic Response to Iconic Photographs Jan 12, 2017
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2016
- Dec 21, 2016 Genocide in South Sudan Dec 21, 2016
- Dec 19, 2016 How to Help the Syrian People Dec 19, 2016
- Dec 16, 2016 Is Empathy Flawed? Dec 16, 2016
- Dec 14, 2016 Christmas in the Nuba Mountains: A Day of Celebration and Potential Death Dec 14, 2016
- Oct 19, 2016 COP21 and Business as Usual Oct 19, 2016
- Oct 19, 2016 Climate Change Is Genocide for Island Nations Oct 19, 2016
- Oct 18, 2016 Drone Footage Shows the Scale of the Destruction of Aleppo Oct 18, 2016
- Oct 17, 2016 The Arithmetic of Compassion – NY Times Op-Ed Oct 17, 2016
- Oct 17, 2016 September on Jessore Road Oct 17, 2016
- Oct 10, 2016 Why Statistics on Human Tragedy Fail to Arouse Compassion Oct 10, 2016
- Oct 3, 2016 One Picture Broke the Heart of the World Oct 3, 2016
- Oct 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 Oct 3, 2016
- Sep 26, 2016 Psychic Numbing (originally posted at OSU Press) Sep 26, 2016
- Aug 3, 2016 Scott Slovic Presents at the Perpignan Ecopoetics Conference Aug 3, 2016