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New Study Highlights Scope-Severity Paradox, When Greater Harm Judged To Be Less Harmful

September 11, 2010 by

Joseph Stalin once claimed that a single death was a tragedy, but a million deaths was a statistic. New research from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University validates this sentiment, confirming large-scale tragedies don't connect with people emotionally in the same way smaller tragedies do...

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