{"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":"2014-06-13T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:51:54","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":"<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? 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