Overcoming Bias : Telescope Effect
By Daniel Miessler on February 17th, 2010: Tagged as Culture | Psychology
If you want to care more about distant victims, set aside your mental image of a large tragedy, focus your mind on one particular victim, and open your heart. If you want to care less, instead of thinking about any one victim, try to visualize a much larger group of similar victims. Now here’s the key question: do you want to care more or less? Not sure? See which image you put in your mind, long enough to act on it.
Another interesting post from Overcoming Bias–which I’ve said many times is probably one of the best blogs on the Internet.