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Article: Researcher says carnage too easy to ignore.(Higher Education)(Studies show people aren't very likely to help victims of mass murder, but a UO professor is doing what he can to stop the genocide in Darfur)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2005
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Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard
If Paul Slovic's research assumptions are correct, there's a good chance you'll stop reading this story as soon as you learn what it's about: genocide in Darfur.
In the African country of Sudan, gangs of assassins called Janjaweed have systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of people, with close to another 2 million interned in refugee camps, threatened with death from famine and disease.
But as the numbers grow, Americans may be less rather than more inclined to help, according to Slovic, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and president of Decision Research, a nonprofit institute ...