What Is The Bystander Effect?

What is the bystander effect? The bystander effect is when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation. People get discouraged in helping others when no one is doing the same. The bystander effect is a Psychological phenomenon that deserves a thorough examination because there are many reactions and causes, also scenarios where people have been killed, and there have also been experiments on the phenomenon. As a matter of fact, there are many reactions and causes to the bystander effect. The bystander effect is an element of social psychology that implies that when the number of bystanders is increased in an emergency situation, the less likely any of the bystanders will aid, or assist in the situation.The cause for social psychologists to begin to study how bystanders react during emergency situations was due to Kitty Genovese being attacked and murdered in front of her apartment in 1964. One of the main reasons that the bystander effect occurs is because of social influence. When there are more people present in an emergency it’s less likely that anyone will assist the person in danger or who
A psychopathic serial killer killed Kitty Genovese right in front of her apartment while 38 of her neighbors were watching and didn’t do anything to help her. The killer, Winston Moseley, brutally stabbed her three times. The killer came back to stab her three times and no one took action or even called the police because they didn’t want to “intervene.” After Kitty was killed one of her neighbors decided to call the police but by the time the ambulance got to her she was already dead and the killer was gone. This is an example how if the neighbors could have just called the police Kitty probably would have still been