Results also suggest that the IVE is more pronounced for helping behaviors when the victim is vividly depicted, blameless in the situation, and not similar to the potential donor. As such, the second essay undertakes a meta-analysis of 40 articles (with 144 effect sizes derived from 225,193 observations) spanning almost 30 years suggests that victim identifiability and group size significantly affects potential donorsвЂ™ helping behaviors, but not their empathetic attitudes. The IVE is quantitatively synthesized in the first essay.

The mechanisms by which these effects occur (e.g., other-focused affect, anticipated self-focused affect, and deliberative thoughts) are discussed, along with proposed directions for future research.Дemonstrations of the most often studied form of compassion fade bias-known as the вЂњidentifiable victim effectвЂќ (IVE-abound in the literature.

The first essay provides a qualitative synthesis of the compassion fade domain as a whole, including a review of current findings of psychophysical numbing, proportion dominance bias, and scope insensitivity studies. 2013) This dissertation consists of three essays exploring compassion fade and the specific biases that exemplify this phenomenon. This is often referred to as Compassion Fade-a greater responsiveness among potential donors to individuals and small numbers of people in need, and lower sensitivity toward larger groups of victims (Markowitz et al. Researchers and practitioners in the nonprofit domain have long lamented the tendency of people to offer greater aid to a smaller number of victims, in essence de-valuing the lives of victims as the number of victims grows.

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