The identifiable victim effect (IVE) refers to individuals' tendency to offer greater help to
specific, identifiable victims than to anonymous, statistical victims. A random-effects meta …

This study investigated possible mediators of the identifiable victim effect (IVE), the
proportion dominance effect (PDE), and the in-group effect (IGE) in helping situations. In …

Compassion shown towards victims often decreases as the number of individuals in need of
aid increases, identifiability of the victims decreases, and the proportion of victims helped …

Diets based on animal products are costly to our health and the planet and often inflict
suffering on animals. In this study, we aimed to elicit animal advocacy among omnivores …

We investigate the interactive effect of donors' self-construal and frame of a persuasive
message (emphasizing statistical or identifiable victims affected by COVID-19) on donation …

In the current chapter, I will discuss a phenomenon known as “compassion collapse”: people
tend to feel and act less compassionately for multiple suffering victims than for a single …

The singularity effect of identifiable victims refers to people's greater willingness to help a
single concrete victim compared with a group of victims experiencing the same need. We …

Because of the large amount of information and the difficulty in selecting an appropriate
recipient in the context of charitable giving, people tend to make extensive use of heuristics …

We are regularly told about people at various locations around the globe, both near and far,
who are in distress or in dire need. In the present research, we examined how the …

People's preference to help victims about whom they have some information is known as the
identifiable victim effect. Results of three studies, in which dispositional attachment styles …