Goats and Soda The Little Boy In Aleppo: Can One Photo End A War?Īnother is the situation: He is coming with his family seeking a new life, and they were so close yet not quite making it. To learn more about how the photo powered our emotions, we spoke to the report's lead researcher, Paul Slovic, a University of Oregon psychology professor and president of Decision Research, a nonprofit organization that studies human judgment, decision-making and risk perception. From this, the study concluded, iconic photos may lead to some sustained commitment even beyond the immediate surge of donations. 02 percent of them opting out of the commitment by January 2016. Still more promising, there was a 10-fold increase of the number of monthly donors signing up for repeated contributions, growing from 106 in August 2015 to 1,061 in September 2015, with only. After six weeks, the amount had leveled further, down to around $6,500 - less than in the previous weeks but nonetheless higher than the original figure. By the second week, the donation totals had already begun to decline, but still topped $45,400. The number of average daily amount of donations to the Swedish Red Cross campaign for Syrian refugees, for instance, was 55 times greater in the week after the photo (around $214,300) than the week before ($3,850). #solidarity /Crm1uApzLJ- Peter Bouckaert September 2, 2015Īs the study shows, however, such immediate outpourings can be short-lived. Just pause 4 moment & imagine this was your child, drowned trying 2 flee #Syria war 4 safety of #EU.
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