The Scarecrow and the Tin Man: The Vicissitudes of Human Sympathy and Caring

By George Loewenstein, Deborah A. Small. 2007

384 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Health, Safety Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/04fce55c2748f82ecdb8b261e3b3e9c27d066a2c

How researchers see this paper

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In General Decision Sciences

1. Paul Gilbert
2. Andrew T. Stephen
3. Jamil Zaki
4. Paul Slovic
5. Jeff Galak
6. Michel Tuan Pham
7. F. Björklund
8. Danit Ein-Gar

In Health

1. Paul Gilbert
2. M. Matos
3. Andrew T. Stephen
4. Jeff Galak
5. Michel Tuan Pham
6. Jamil Zaki
7. S. M. Burn
8. F. Björklund

In Safety Research

1. Paul Slovic
2. Paul Gilbert
3. Andrew T. Stephen
4. Jeff Galak
5. Jamil Zaki
6. F. Björklund
7. Deborah A. Small
8. Danit Ein-Gar

Citations in the corpus

• Temporal Distance and Moral Concerns: Future Morally Questionable Behavior is Perceived as More Wrong and Evokes Stronger Prosocial Intentions (2009, background): “1 As a manipulation of temporal distance, the participants in the near-future condition were instructed to imagine that the scenarios would take place today (in 2007 ), whereas the participants in the distant-future condition were instructed to imagine that the scenarios would happen 30 years in”
• When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories: The moderating role of perspective taking (2014, background): “…was based on the notion that taking the perspective of a group that is threatened by a harmful and consequential event connects the self with the group, and as a consequence, makes people personally worried about the event (e.g., Batson et al., 2007; Loewenstein & Small, 2007; Park, 2010).”
• Microfinance Decision Making: A Field Study of Prosocial Lending (2011, positive): “Donors prefer to give when there exists some match or similarity between themselves and a victim or cause (Loewenstein and Small 2007).”
• Giving from a distance: Putting the charitable organization at the center of the donation appeal (2013, background): “We suggest that the “identifiable victim effect”, that is, the preference to donate to a specific person in need, occurs when people feel psychologically close to the donation target (Loewenstein & Small, 2007; Small et al., 2007).”
• A Situational Model of Sexual Assault Prevention through Bystander Intervention (2009, background): “Perceptions of similarity between oneself and others can allow an individual to take others' perspectives (Cialdini et al. 1997), increasing feelings of empathy, which in turn, increases the likelihood of helping others when they are in need (Batson et al. 2007; Loewenstein and Small 2007).”