Scott Slovic is a professor of literature and the environment and chair of the English department at the University of Idaho. In 2015, Scott and Paul Slovic co-edited a book on psychic numbing and related cognitive phenomena titled "Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data." The three authors maintain a website devoted to raising awareness of psychic numbing and its impact on our world: www.arithmeticofcompassion.org.
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