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THE BYSTANDER EFFECT
David Park, Vinny Wetzel
PSYCHOLOGISTS
John Darley
April 3, 1938 (alive)
Studied at Swarthmore College
Made contributions to the study of helping behavior
Bibb Latané
July 19, 1937 (alive) Awarded twice for the AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
Studied at Yale
Contributed to the social influence of populations
THE PURPOSE
oThey wanted to see if people would help each other in situations of
life or death
oGirl named Kitty Genovese was murdered outside of her house
oThere were bystanders
othey did nothing
oThis was the first case that interested Darley and Latané
THE EXPERIMENT
They wanted to see if people would help each other in situations of life or death
Faked dying situations to see a persons reaction time and what they would do to help the person in danger
Used people who were unaware of the event taking placeUsed Columbia University students for experiments
In 2000, they used people in chats rooms to see if it had the same effect as people in a “non cyber” environment
RESULTS
It took longer for people in groups to help each other
People alone would notice and react to the danger faster than the people in groups
The same result applies to people in chat rooms
PROBLEMS
Bystanders could actually get hurt
The participants could have been injured
WOULD YOU PARTICIPATE????//?
David
“I would’ve definitely participated in it” – David Park, 2015
Why:
“I would like to see how I would react in a situation like they do in their experiments.”
Vinny
“Sure man, why not?” – Vinny Wetzel, 2015
Why:
“I think it would be cool if I could participate in this. I would like to see what I would actually do.”