Psychology 3720F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mother Teresa, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance
31 Jan 2018
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> no: do not help > yes: accept personal responsibility. Emergency helping - kitty genovese (march 13th 1964) Decision tree model (latane and darley) - many experiments on bystander apathy . > no: do not help > yes: interpret as emergency. ** only if these ve steps are met a person will give help (if not all ve they will not help) Interpreting the event as an emergency: eg: latane and darley 1968 - Ps completing a questionnaire (fake) smoke in through one of the vents in the room. Alone (75% got up to leave) three participants (40%) one participant and two passive. > no: do not help (audience inhibition) > yes: (help!) confederates (don"t react when smoke is coming into room) (10%) Pluralistic ignorance: shared mistaken oppression that everything is okay because each individual does not show concern. Bystander effect: likelihood of a person helping decreases as number of bystanders increase.
