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President Ronald Regan was moved. He had just viewed a private screening of The Day After, a 1983 television movie chronicling the aftermath of a nuclear exchange with the USSR. Regan reportedly developed such a sense of empathy with the fictional, irradiated residents of Missouri that, soon after the screening, he began nuclear disarmament talks with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Stull, E. (2018). Empathy. In: UX Fundamentals for Non-UX Professionals. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3811-0_21
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