The ability to sense and avoid harmful environmental conditions is necessary for the survival
of all living organisms. Survival is also aided by an ability to codify and learn from past …

Charitable giving in 2013 exceeded $300 billion, but why do we respond to some life-saving
causes while ignoring others? In our first two studies, we demonstrated that valuation of lives …

Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and
focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these …

There is considerable agreement amongst scholars and international actors that ideologies
and speech play a critical role in the path of escalation towards mass atrocity crimes …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

Corporate social responsibility has been intensively discussed in business ethics literature,
whereas the social responsibility of private consumers appears to be less researched …

Visualizations designed to make readers compassionate with the persons whose data is
represented have been called anthropographics and are commonly employed by …

In research on'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of
ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the …

Drawing from psychological research, the study examines how story form influences reader
reaction to news accounts of mass violence in Africa. An online survey with embedded …

“Compassionate Conservation” is an emerging movement within conservation science that
is gaining attention through its promotion of “ethical” conservation practices that place …