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Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter II

Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter II

Cover art of The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll by Bob Dylan.

Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJanuary 29, 2024

Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter I

Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter I

Sunday Bloody Sunday's cover art.

U2

Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJanuary 25, 2024

Why we're numb to the people killed in Israel and Gaza

Why we're numb to the people killed in Israel and Gaza

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan breaks down while reading an urgent message from the Director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJanuary 17, 2024

Compassion Week 2023

Environmental Humanities, Narrative Empathy, Prominence, Pseudoinefficacy, Psychic Numbing, Slow ViolenceArithmetic of Compassion TeamSeptember 13, 2023

Memorializing Emmett Till & The Power of an Open Casket

Memorializing Emmett Till & The Power of an Open Casket

Narrative Empathy, Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamSeptember 13, 2023

Artistic Depictions of Climate Change Challenging Politicization

Artistic Depictions of Climate Change Challenging Politicization

Environmental Humanities, Psychic Numbing, Slow ViolenceArithmetic of Compassion TeamAugust 28, 2023

Putin and the Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship: A Deadly Arithmetic of Compassion

Putin and the Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship: A Deadly Arithmetic of Compassion

Prominence, Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 30, 2023

Two Tragedies at Sea, Two Different Responses Understood through the Arithmetic of Compassion

Two Tragedies at Sea, Two Different Responses Understood through the Arithmetic of Compassion

Psychic Numbing, Pseudoinefficacy, ProminenceArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 26, 2023

Narrative Medicine Writing Saved My Sanity

Narrative Medicine Writing Saved My Sanity

Psychic Numbing, Narrative Empathy, PseudoinefficacyArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 23, 2023

Forget Me Not: A Lesson About Valuing Lives of the Many and the Few

Forget Me Not: A Lesson About Valuing Lives of the Many and the Few

Psychic Numbing, PseudoinefficacyArithmetic of Compassion TeamMay 18, 2023

Photographing Vulnerability: Trans-scalar Articulations of Precarity from the Shorelines of Kerala

Photographing Vulnerability: Trans-scalar Articulations of Precarity from the Shorelines of Kerala

Environmental Humanities, Pseudoinefficacy, Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamMay 16, 2023

How to Help Victims of the Turkey and Syria Earthquake

How to Help Victims of the Turkey and Syria Earthquake

Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamFebruary 14, 2023Turkey, Syria, Earthquake, CharityWatch

Harming Many People is Easier than Harming One

Harming Many People is Easier than Harming One

Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamDecember 27, 2022

The Soul Box Project

Psychic Numbing, PseudoinefficacyArithmetic of Compassion TeamOctober 12, 2022

Applying the Arithmetic of Compassion to the Plight of Refugees

Applying the Arithmetic of Compassion to the Plight of Refugees

Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamOctober 10, 2022

50 Year Anniversary of “The Terror of War”

50 Year Anniversary of “The Terror of War”

Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamSeptember 16, 2022

Around the O interviews Paul Slovic on gun violence

Around the O interviews Paul Slovic on gun violence

Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 14, 2022

A New York Times Report on Gun Violence and Psychic Numbing

A New York Times Report on Gun Violence and Psychic Numbing

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