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On Human Rights and the Israel-Hamas War, a conversation with University of Oregon Scholars
On Human Rights and the Israel-Hamas War, a conversation with University of Oregon Scholars
Psychic Numbing, ProminenceArithmetic of Compassion TeamFebruary 19, 2024Psychic Numbing, Prominence Effect
A Professor Risking His Life to Expose Genocide in Ukraine
A Professor Risking His Life to Expose Genocide in Ukraine

A woman carrying her baby crosses a destroyed bridge as they flee.

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Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamFebruary 9, 2024
Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter III
Can Music Help Overcome Psychological Barriers to Action? Chapter III

Activist Steve Biko.

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Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJanuary 31, 2024
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.

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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

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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.

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Psychic NumbingArithmetic of Compassion TeamJanuary 17, 2024
The New York Times on the Power of Stories
The New York Times on the Power of Stories

“We are not numbers.” Near East News Agency, 19 Nov. 2015.

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Arithmetic of Compassion TeamNovember 21, 2023
Compassion Week 2023
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
Climbing the “Ladder of Abstraction” to Evoke Empathy
Climbing the “Ladder of Abstraction” to Evoke Empathy
Narrative EmpathyArithmetic of Compassion TeamJuly 28, 2023
The Power of Photos to Raise Concern about Biodiversity Loss
The Power of Photos to Raise Concern about Biodiversity Loss
Environmental Humanities, Narrative EmpathyArithmetic of Compassion TeamJuly 6, 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
Uncovering the Legacy of Genocide through Audio-Storytelling
Uncovering the Legacy of Genocide through Audio-Storytelling
Narrative Empathy, Slow ViolenceArithmetic of Compassion TeamJune 8, 2023
Using Islander Stories to Discuss Sea-Level Rise
Using Islander Stories to Discuss Sea-Level Rise
Narrative Empathy, Slow Violence, Environmental HumanitiesArithmetic of Compassion TeamMay 25, 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
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