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    What is Conformity? People follow the crowd in all kinds of ways. Experiments are conducted to see how far a person will conform and why we conform under certain circumstances. Classical Psychology experiments try to put people together in awkward situations or have individuals separated from their peers acting strangely and out of the norm in order to see if individuals will conform. In essence‚ it means that in order to break from the accepted norm‚ it would mean to slow things down. If you find

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    in society or within a culture. Psychologists have come to find that the way a person acts influences others either positively or negatively. Behavior‚ above all other things‚ describes why the bystander effect happens. In 1968‚ Bibb Latané and John Darley were the first to demonstrate the bystander effect. Darley and Latané arrived at the conclusion that the number of people within an area influences the likelihood of intervention during an emergency (Latané and Darley‚ 1968). Emergency‚ in this

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    Bystander Effect/Diffusion of Responsibility Psychology Interview Questionnaire 1. What is the bystander effect/diffusion of responsibility in your own opinion? 2. What is the Malaysian’s level of awareness towards the bystander effect? 3. How is the ‘bystander effect’ situation in Malaysia at the moment? 4. What are the factors that cause the bystander effect? 5. What triggers someone to help only after they see another person take action first? 6. Does time factor play an important role

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    ‘The Bystander Effect’ Lily is thirteen years old and tall for her age. One afternoon‚ she confronts a suspicious looking stranger near a young girl playing in the local park. The stranger takes to his heels when Lily challenges him. Lily’s bravery is the talk of the neighbourhood. On learning of this‚ a student who is studying social psychology makes the comment: It’s just as well that Lily’s usual playmates were not around or that little girl might not have received any help. (Vaughan and

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    Question # 3: The murder of twenty eight year old Catherine (Kitty) Genovese on the morning of March 13th‚ 1964 was one that would be remembered in history as prompting the discovery of the “bystander effect”. The 1960’s was an era of change within the United States. The military draft and Vietnam War had caused uproar amongst the youth who now turned to psychoactive drugs for recreation and were slowly succumbing to the rise of the hippie movement. “Free love” stemmed from this movement

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    THE BYSTANDER EFFECT The bystander effect is the name given to a social psychological phenomenon in cases where individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present. It is a situational ambiguity; when we are confused about a situation and unconsciously interpret the event as if nothing is happening unusual. Some researchers have found that onlookers are less likely to intervene if the situation is ambiguous. We usually develop an illusion of normality

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    Psychology Bystander Effect Essay In New York City around 1964‚ a 29-year-old woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death. Despite hearing cries nobody reported this incident to the police; only because they assumed that someone else would or has already done it. Although murders in New York are not uncommon‚ the circumstances surrounding Kitty’s death have saved her story to be a strangely literal illustration of what is now a well-known psychological effect: the Bystander Effect. The Bystander

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    pedestrians walk past the suffering man in such a location‚ they would lose their individual responsibility and tend to think that others present would take action. Hence‚ this social psychological phenomenon could be referred to as the bystander effect. Bystander effect was confirmed after the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964. Kitty was raped and stabbed to death in two different attacks as she was on the way back home from her work. According to several media accounts‚ the assault lasted for nearly

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    The Bystander Effect Psy 110 - Asynchronous The Bystander Effect If you saw someone being attacked on the street‚ would you help? Many of us would quickly say yes we would help because to state the opposite would say that we are evil human beings. Much research has been done on why people choose to help and why others choose not to. The bystander effect states that the more bystanders present‚ the less likely it is for someone to help. Sometimes

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    Name: Jacob Talley RC: 4 APA Reference: Valentine‚ E. (1980) The Attenuating Influence of Gaze Upon the Bystander Intervention Effect. Journal of Social Psychology‚ 111‚ 197-203. Introduction – This study researched the implications of the bystander effect when both gaze and no gaze methods were used. It tested this with woman to woman interaction only. The belief was that when gaze was held between the subject needing assistance and a random subject the expressed desire to help

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