“…Methodologically, we use experimental methods for studying political and economic decisions (Druckman, Green, Kuklinski, & Lupia, ; McDermott, ). Theoretically, we draw on evolutionary psychological perspectives on political science (Aarøe & Petersen, ; Alford & Hibbing, ; Dawes, Fowler, Johnson, McElreath, & Smirnov, ; Delton, Nemirow, Robertson, Cimino, & Cosmides, ; Fowler & Schreiber, ; Hatemi & McDermott, ; Loewen & Dawes, ; Lopez & McDermott, ). We test whether compassion and welfare attitudes are structured by two heuristics of caring, one focused on absolute needs and one on sudden, acute needs.…”