Gilbert Kwok
In this assignment, I will critically evaluate 8 research articles relevant to my topic of “Do gender, culture, and age groups influence the way society acts as a described by the bystander effect”?
Bystander Intervention in a Crime: The Effect of a Mass-media Campaign
Leonard Bickman, 1975 Two studies were performed in order to investigate bystander intervention during a staged shop-lifting in a campus bookstore. The first study began with an advertisement against shop-lifting in the campus newspaper that outlined what students should do in case they spot a shop-lifter and why they should act. Campaign posters were also hung throughout the bookstore.
A total of 184 students were tested, with 93 before the …show more content…
(2002). The bystander effect and social control behavior: The effect of the presence of others on people's reactions to norm violations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32(6), 853-867.
Garcia, S. M., Weaver, K., Moskowitz, G. B., & Darley, J. M. (2002). Crowded minds: the implicit bystander effect. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(4), 843.
Katz, J. (2015). Effects of Group Status and Victim Sex on Male Bystanders’ Responses to a Potential Party Rape. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 24(5), 588-602.
Machackova, H., Dedkova, L., & Mezulanikova, K. (2015). Brief report: The bystander effect in cyberbullying incidents. Journal of adolescence, 43, 96-99.
Plötner, M., Over, H., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children show the bystander effect in helping situations. Psychological science, 0956797615569579.
Schwartz, S. H., & Gottlieb, A. (1976). Bystander reactions to a violent theft: crime in Jerusalem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34(6), 1188.
Sokol, N., Bussey, K., & Rapee, R. M. (2015). The effect of victims' responses to overt bullying on same-sex peer bystander reactions. Journal of School Psychology, 53(5),