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PhD candidate Ioannis Evangelidis and Bram Van den Bergh studied the disproportionate humanitarian responses to natural disasters, looking for an explanation in how we perceive and process disasters and how we make decisions about charity. Their theory: we respond to deaths more decisively than we respond to other, undefined suffering, even though it is obviously not the dead who need help.
PhD candidate Ioannis Evangelidis and Bram Van den Bergh studied the disproportionate humanitarian responses to natural disasters, looking for an explanation in how we perceive and process disasters and how we make decisions about charity. Their theory: we respond to deaths more decisively than we respond to other, undefined suffering, even though it is obviously not the dead who need help.