Contents
Foreword: Headbone and Hormone: Adventures in the Arithmetic of Life - Robert Michael Pyle
Acknowledgments
Credits
Introduction: The Psychophysics of Brightness and the Value of a Life - Scott Slovic and Paul Slovic
Part I: Social and Psychological Perspectives on Sensitivity and Meaning - With an introduction by Paul Slovic and Scott Slovic
1. The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Psychic Numbing and Genocide - Paul Slovic and Daniel Västfjäll
2. Pseudoinefficacy and the Arithmetic of Compassion - Daniel Västfjäll, Paul Slovic, and Marcus Mayorga
3. The Prominence Effect: Confronting the Collapse of Humanitarian Values in Foreign Policy Decisions - Paul Slovic
4. The Age of Numbing Robert - Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell
5. Epidemic Disease as Structural Violence: An Excerpt from Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights - Paul Farmer
Part II: Narrative, Analytical, and Visual Strategies for Prompting Sensitivity and Meaning - With an introduction by Scott Slovic and Paul Slovic
6. The Power of One - Nicholas D. Kristof
7. From One to Too Many - Kenneth Helphand
8. The Wreck of Time - Annie Dillard
9. Science, Eloquence, and the Asymmetry of Trust: What’s at Stake in Climate Change Fiction - Scott Slovic
10. Healing Rwanda - Terry Tempest Williams
11. When Words Fail: Climate Change Activists Have Chosen a Magic Number - Bill Mckibben
12. The Blood Root of Art - Rick Bass
Part III: Interviews on the Communication of Numerical Information to the General Public - With an introduction by Scott Slovic and Paul Slovic
13. Reacting to Information in a “Personal, Moral Way”: An Interview with Homero and Betty Aridjis
14. Countering the “Anesthesia of Destruction”: An Interview with Vandana Shiva
15. The Meaning of “One Data Point”: An Interview with Sandra Steingraber
16. Introspection, Social Transformation, and the Trans-Scalar Imaginary: An Interview with Chris Jordan
Part IV: Postscript - Scott Slovic and Paul Slovic
Contributors
Index