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Researcher says carnage too easy to ignore.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-NOV-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Researcher says carnage too easy to ignore.(Higher Education)(Studies show people aren't very likely to help victims of mass murder, but a UO professor is doing what he can to stop the genocide in Darfur)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard

If Paul Slovic's research assumptions are correct, there's a good chance you'll stop reading this story as soon as you learn what it's about: genocide in Darfur.

In the African country of Sudan, gangs of assassins called Janjaweed have systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of people, with close to another 2 million interned in refugee camps, threatened with death from famine and disease.

But as the numbers grow, Americans may be less rather than more inclined to help, according to Slovic, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and president of Decision Research, a nonprofit institute that studies human decision-making and perceptions of risk.

It's not that Americans lack compassion - witness the outpouring of support for victims of Hurricane Katrina earlier this fall, and for survivors of last year's devastating tsunami in...

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