Browsing by Subject "Desensitization"

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    • Crime and violence: Desensitization in victims to watchingcriminal events 

      Di Tella, Rafael; Freira, Lucía; Gálvez, Ramiro; Schargrodsky, Ernesto; Shalom, Diego E.; Sigman, Mariano (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization (e-ISSN: 1879-1751), 2019)
      We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices ...