PSY-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance, Psych
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Also how often you have moved matters. People who have lived for a long time in one place are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviors that help the community. Living for longer time in one place leads to: Greater concern with one"s reputation in the community. Greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help. 5 steps necessary to help in a situation: must notice an event. Being in a hurry reduces people"s help severely. Bystanders assuming that nothing is wrong in an emergency because no one. We look calm to look if they are interpreting it as an emergency while they"re are looking to us but since no one does anything nothing gets done: assuming responsibility. Sometimes it is obvious that an emergency is occurring, as when kitty genovese cried out.
