AI RESEARCH
Narrative over Numbers: The Identifiable Victim Effect and its Amplification Under Alignment and Reasoning in Large Language Models
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.12076v1 Announce Type: cross The Identifiable Victim Effect (IVE) $-$ the tendency to allocate greater resources to a specific, narratively described victim than to a statistically characterized group facing equivalent hardship $-$ is one of the most robust findings in moral psychology and behavioural economics.