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"To Get a Feel for What This Means": Annie Dillard's Thought Experiments and the Quest to Understand Compassion.
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- Author(s): Slovic, Scott
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Texas Studies in Literature & Language. Summer2024, Vol. 66 Issue 2, p96-104. 9p.
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The article presents the discussion on psychological barriers that prevent humans from fully engaging with large-scale events and suffering. Topics include emphasizing the difficulty of sustaining compassion for impersonal others; and concepts of psychic numbing, pseudoinefficacy, and the prominence effect, as well as the exploration of human compassion through the lens of literature and psychological studies.
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