The Life You Can Save

By P. Singer. 2009

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The Psychology of Charitable Donations to Disaster Victims and Beyond (2015, background): “There is a large body of research showing that people are more willing to help ingroup members than outgroup members (Baron & Szymanska, 2011; Singer, 2009).”
The Agricultural Ethics of Biofuels: The Food vs. Fuel Debate (2012, background): “Notably, Peter Singer has made precisely this argument in his very influential analyses of hunger as a moral problem, [41,42].”
“Doing well by doing good”? Ambivalent moral framing in organizations (2011, background): “One relevant determinant of this ending point is likely to be how quickly the consequences recede into the geographic, temporal, or probabilistic distance (Reed & Aquino, 2003; Singer, 2009).”
The Braggart's Dilemma: On the Social Rewards and Penalties of Advertising Prosocial Behavior (2015, methodology): “Some argue that proudly communicating one’s good deeds may be highly altruistic if it leads to a “culture of giving” that focuses more on the total good being done rather than whether one is motivated by the right reasons (e.g., Singer 2009).”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “In fact, P. Singer (2010) promoted just such utilitarian tuning of empathy by encouraging observers to focus on the suffering of targets they cannot and may never encounter personally, thus regulating empathy in a manner consistent with individuals’ moral principles.”