Faced with daily news of gruesome violence, pandemic losses and mass crimes against humanity around the world, we sometimes zone out, become indifferent and stop caring. Those statistics of injustice or death appear to be just numbers after a point.
This is a cognitive bias called Psychic Numbing or Compassion Fade.
In episode 9 of eShe TV, Manvi Pant discusses this psychological phenomenon in her show ‘Mind Over Matter’.
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