Psychology 3720F/G Lecture 5: 5. Situational and Interpersonal Influences

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3720F/G
• Professor: katz

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Situational influences (the presence of other bystanders: kitty genovese and 28 unresponsive bystanders. She died after an attack that lasted 45 minutes. Lata(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d darley"s a(cid:374)alysis: dehumanization that occurs in big cities? (no) Lata(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d darley"s eizure study: male university students discuss personal problems in adjusting to life at a large university. They were told they would be in either a 2,3 or 6 person group. In reality there would be no other people, they would just hear tape recorded voices. Put in private rooms where they would talk over an intercom to reduce possible embarrassment about discussing personal problems in front of others. Then they would hear one of the other people have an epileptic seizure. In some cases, the participant would think he was the only bystander (2 person group); there was 1 other bystander (3 person group); or 5 other bystanders (6 person group: % of subject who helped. 6 person: 160 seconds: the bystander effect.