Darley And Latane Seizure Experiment

Subsequent findings related to this study is that what if all the bystanders which were involved in the Kitty Genovese murder and in the seizure experiment all were near each other and were able to communicate with each. Maybe, this would have changed whether they’d help or not. Since, there’s more people would they feel more responsibility to help since, they’re being watched. According, to Darley and Latane the subjects in close contact would still be less likely to help than a subject which is alone. Recent applications, would be one done by Latane and Darley as well. In this study they used some volunteers that were psychology students in an urban university. They would call in these volunteers to come in and “discuss some of the problems involved in life at an urban university.” Some subjects were there solo or in a group of two or three in a waiting room which had a vent.
Only 55% of the subjects which were alone reported the smoke within two minutes, whereas only 12% of the subjects in the other two groups with more people did. After, about four minutes 75% of the subjects who were alone reported the smoke. While, no one else from the other groups reported the smoke. Darley and Latane's study have been applied on other on the surface subjects an example is domestic violence and child abuse. This research , studied the characteristics of the witnesses of domestic violence and child abuse. Another, recent application done by some researchers and Darley as well was getting volunteers and telling them to imagine that they’re alone and were going to donate money. Then, they would tell them to imagine they were with other people and needed to donate money. The results were that the subjects would donate more money when alone and less when with other people because they felt less responsibility when being in a