Paul and Scott Slovic on Public Health On Call

In a new episode of the podcast Public Health On Call, Dr. Colleen Barry interviews psychologist Paul Slovic and literary scholar Scott Slovic on the Arithmetic of Compassion. They discuss how psychic numbing causes us to feel indifference in the face of large-scale threats like genocide, the Covid-19 pandemic, and species extinction. You can listen to the podcast episode here or on various podcast platforms.

Public Health On Call is produced by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.