Helping: 3) Situational Theories (cont.) -• Other situational influences on helping:– Rural/Urban areas:

– Culture:

– Role modeling:

– Attractiveness:

Increasing Helping• Increasing helping among bystanders -

• Avoid the overjustification effect –– How to best motivate volunteers:

Ch 15: Social Psych in Court

Part 1

Eyewitness Identifications• Research on eyewitness memory –– Weighted heavily in trials, but how accurate?

– One cause of wrongful conviction• Recent cases w/DNA evidence overturning verdict

• Juries are influenced by eyewitnesses– Are confidence & accuracy correlated?

– Discredited eyewitnesses? Loftus study -

• Why might eyewitnesses be inaccurate?

• The case of Jennifer Thompson’s assault– Details of her case:

– How did eyewitness memory come into play?

– How did DNA testing come into play?