shiva777
30th December 2010, 17:55
February 2010 :: J.E. Robertson
‘Psychic numbing‘ is a relatively new term, assigned to the phenomenon which shows people tend to feel less urgent compassion, and tend to give less, when the suffering in question is shown to be more systemic and more pervasive, or affecting larger numbers of people. Some psychologists believe it is linked to our intuitive sense that if one suffers alone, the suffering is worse, but if one is accompanied, there might be some security in numbers, not just emotionally, but practically
http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2010/02/27/6093/psychic-numbing-why-does-mass-suffering-induce-mass-indifference/
‘Psychic numbing‘ is a relatively new term, assigned to the phenomenon which shows people tend to feel less urgent compassion, and tend to give less, when the suffering in question is shown to be more systemic and more pervasive, or affecting larger numbers of people. Some psychologists believe it is linked to our intuitive sense that if one suffers alone, the suffering is worse, but if one is accompanied, there might be some security in numbers, not just emotionally, but practically
http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2010/02/27/6093/psychic-numbing-why-does-mass-suffering-induce-mass-indifference/