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Deadly catastrophes and the limits of human compassion

Indonesia is struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 2,000 people and displaced 70,000. But why do people around the world tend to tune out these types of deadly disasters? Jamil Zaki, a psychology professor at Stanford University, joins CBSN to discuss the human reaction to such devastating events.
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