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https://carleton.ca/cognitivescience/wp-content/uploads/sites/255/Vietnam-Wall.jpg640427People seem to be just as moved to compassion by a tragedy affecting 15 as 500 people. Can we overcome our insensitivity to numbers using imagery and the imagination? In this Psychology Today blog entry, Carleton University associate professor Jim Davies looks at the evidence. Jim Davies: Author of Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make […]