Thinking about statistics shifts people into a more analytical frame of mind. When people think analytically, they're less likely to think emotionally....
The results are shocking. The mere act of calculation reduced people's charity. Once we put on our analytical hat, we react to emotional appeals differently. We hinder our ability to feel.

...living lives of noisy, slurping indulgence, wrongly celebrating [our] capacity to feel so that [we] finally lose [our] capacity to feel and
become “past feeling.” Hence [we] lick [our] particular platters in a desperate search for more sensation.