1. Caring about humanitarian crises
Michael Gross 
Current Biology 
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages R123-R125 (February 2017)
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2. War torn: Images from humanitarian crises such as the civil war in Syria are ubiquitous, but only rarely succeed in raising empathy and a willingness to help. (Image: Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Basma. Creative Commons licence
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3. Identity issue: Research shows that empathy responds better to images of a single identified, or at least identifiable, person. While groups of victims may need more support, their numbers rather subtract from our empathy. Charities and political organizations have long used this effect, with ads and posters of individuals, like in this charity campaign from (Image: United States Government/Wikimedia Commons.)
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