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psychic numbing

 

Trying to understand why we turn away in the face of tragedy

 

documentary Desiree Aflleje & Emese Foss

 

 

Psychologist Paul Slovic has spent his live studying why humans make decisions.  In recent years, he became immersed in a troubling puzzle: why have humans have allowed for a history of genocides? With urgency, Slovic set out to unravel the psychology behind this question as it faced an immediate application, the 5-year-long, ongoing genocide in Darfur. His professional and personal life is now immersed in trying to solve this puzzle and find out if anything can be done about it.