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A New York Times Report on Gun Violence and Psychic Numbing

Rally to Prevent Violence

In the context of the heartbreaking Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, Paul Slovic breaks down psychic numbing and advises us on how to overcome it via Melinda Wenner Moyer's New York Times article, "The 'Psychic Numbing' of Mass Tragedies,” published May 26, 2022.

Photograph by Jay Baker CC BY 2.0

Psychic Numbing, PseudoinefficacyArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 1, 2022Gun violence
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