{"id":9545,"date":"2014-06-13T09:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/ics\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:06","slug":"possible-feel-sympathy-many-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2014\/possible-feel-sympathy-many-people-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Possible to Feel Sympathy For Many People at Once?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Is It Possible to Feel Sympathy For Many People at Once?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-science-imagination\/201406\/is-it-possible-feel-sympathy-many-people-once\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology Today blog<\/a> entry, Carleton University associate professor Jim Davies looks at the evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Davies:&nbsp;Author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/jim-davies\/riveted\/\" target=\"_blank\">Riveted<\/a>: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh,&nbsp;Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel&nbsp;One with the Universe.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People 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:&nbsp;Author of Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}