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  Bystander effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In an unrelated use, the term bystander effect is also used in radiobiology to describe the effects of radiation on cells that are adjacent to those directly affected by radiation.
The bystander effect (also known as bystander apathy) is a psychological phenomenon where persons are less likely to intervene in an emergency situation when others are present than when they are alone.
People may also assume that other bystanders may be more qualified to help, such as being a doctor or police officer, and their intervention would thus be unneeded.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bystander_effect   (711 words)

  
 MVP Strategies
In this model, a "bystander" is defined as a family member, friend, classmate, teammate, coworker– anyone who is imbedded in a family, school, social, or professional relationship with someone who might in some way be abusive, or experiencing abuse.
At the same time, the focus on girls and women as empowered bystanders - not victims, potential victims or survivors - can give them fresh new ideas about how to be supportive to their peers, as well as help inspire them to be leaders in their peer culture, as well as with younger girls.
The standard MVP evaluation is a pre and post-test that measures attitudes and behaviors that relate to the role of bystanders in creating and sustaining peer culture climates that discourage abusive behavior and reward pro-social, proactive responses to situations of harm or potential harm.
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 Bystander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I am presenting myself as a case study for \"bystander apathy.\" I personally am appalled by the thought of being able to look the other way when there is someone in need.
Something that I think is equally as unfortunate as the problem of bystander apathy is the general lack of ideas proposed to solve it.
\"Bystander Apathy and the Territorial Imperative\" Sociological Inquiry 53(4): 449-460.
www.alcohol-rehab.org /technology/Bystander.htm   (2390 words)

  
 Latane and Darley: Bystander Apathy
This paper is about bystander apathy and the researchers experiments.
The bystander can only gain with pride and a hero's status -- but he risks being a failure, getting sued, or even attacked or wounded himself.
One with the subject and a real friend as bystanders, and one where six real subjects had prior contact and a brief "encounter" with the percieved victim.
faculty.babson.edu /krollag/org_site/soc_psych/latane_bystand.html   (1259 words)

  
 bystander apathy Free Essays
Apathy "Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings." Some might think that whenHelen Keller spoke those words, she was talking of some exotic disease that affec...
Apathy involves people either being content with their current status and the world around them, or being ignorant to those same surroundings.
The Apathy of Generation X For the past 25 years it has been wondered why the young people of America have shared the same apathetic attitude towards politics as the older generation of Americans.
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 To Help or Not to Help? That Is the Question.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In past research in the area of bystander apathy, Latane and Darley (1970) in their studies have found that several events happen before a bystander intervenes.
Bystanders have been less likely to intervene if other bystanders are present.
Empathy with the victim is important to emotional arousal in the bystander, according to a field experiment in a New York subway, where the variables of illness or drunkenness and fl or white race, are used to measure helping behavior.
www.mwsc.edu /psychology/research/psy302/fall95/madden.htm   (1563 words)

  
 APATHY, Quick Term Papers, Term papers, 050828
Argues against the idea that bystanders should be held legally responsible for not assisting in an emergency.
This paper argues in favor of the proposition that innocent bystanders should not be held legally responsible for not assisting in an emergency.
This paper examines the dominating role the media played in the "Watergate" affair in forcing the executive branch of the government into the public contest, where the government and the media were pitted in a battle for public favor.
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 Bystander effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In an unrelated use, the term is also used in radiobiology to describe the effects of radiation on cells that are adjacent to those directly affected by radiation.
A 1968 study by and first demonstrated the bystander effect in the laboratory.
You are walking your dog early in the morning and see thick smoke coming out of the window of a house.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bystander_effect   (616 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Interface
he term "bystander's apathy" was first employed by social psychologists in the early 1960s to denote the lack of social conscience and inability to reach out and help any person who is either in distress or a victim of any social crime.
Bystander’s apathy can certainly not be checked by laws that will make it mandatory for witnesses to report.
Bystanders assume that others will act, so they are not personally responsible.
www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010817/main8.htm   (2043 words)

  
 Dixon.leg
Davis and Palladino (1997) define the bystander effect as the tendency for a group of bystanders to be less likely than an individual to help a person in trouble.
The famous incident that sparked the concern of the possibility of bystander apathy (essentially ignoring a person in trouble) was the murder of Kitty Genovese.
The bystander effect is a real phenomenon and there are incidents that occur today even with an awareness of the possible consequences of it.
www.psychology.sbc.edu /dixon.htm   (1454 words)

  
 Newman Study Site
Some newspaper editors and psychiatrists at the time blamed the behavior on "bystander apathy" or growing "urban alienation." The story became a metaphor for modern city life.
However, when there are 10 bystanders, we each perceive ourselves to have only a tenth of the responsibility.
The higher the number of bystanders, the less obligated each individual is likely to feel to intervene.
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 Imprint: November 28, 2003
Apathy was probably the word she learned in school that day or had read in the latest book she was devouring.
We've all heard of bystander apathy, voter apathy, and the plague of teenage apathy.
We may not be able to institute change, but apathy is the death of all dialogue and debate.
imprint.uwaterloo.ca /story.php?story=4180   (442 words)

  
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 AS Psychology
The early laboratory experiments into bystander apathy consisted of candid camera/trigger happy style scenarios where people were placed in situations such as a smoke filled room to investigate if people would sound the alarm or not.
and a number of other psychologists chose to investigate the inactivity of the bystanders, but not why women are violently and sexually attacked by men regardless of the presence or absence of bystanders.
Banyard and Grayson (2000) argue that “surely the central problem that needs to be addressed is not the behaviour of the bystanders, but the behaviour of the murderer, and the construction of male sexuality that encourages grotesque acts of violence against women”.
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 Teacher Education Quarterly: We Change the World by Doing Nothing
The focus of this essay is on what I refer to as "bystander apathy." Bystanderism is the response of people who observe something that demands intervention on their part, but they choose not to get involved.
Learned apathy is the product of socially sanctioned and institutional practices that work to shape the public psyche.
Bystanders were the human beings who were "conspicuous not by their absence, but by their silence" (Barnett, 1999, p.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3960/is_200401/ai_n9378045   (1358 words)

  
 Online Ethics Center: When is Deception Ethically Justified in Research?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The purpose of this study was to examine some of the factors leading to "bystander apathy" (the failure of witnesses to help others in distress).
To test Piliavin and Piliavin's theory of bystander intervention, the behavior of passengers was observed when an experimenter, posing as a "victim" with a cane, "collapsed" in a moving subway car.
As predicted, bystanders exposed to the "bloody" victim were less likely to offer direct help and more likely to offer indirect help or no help at all when compared to those exposed to the bloodless victim.
onlineethics.org /reseth/psycha.html   (993 words)

  
 A Picture History of Kew Gardens, NY - What you think you know about the Kitty Genovese case might not be true.
While the lynch mob mentality was widely known and understood 40 years ago, no one in March of 1964 could understand how onlookers not poisoned by anger or motivated by racial anomosity could have turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to Kitty's plight.
Yet, if any aspect of the Kitty Genovese story is open to question, it is that the witnesses were simply apathetic or that their reactions that night were somehow a departure from the norm.
Simply put, their findings were that the more bystanders there are who witness an emergency, the less likely any of them are to to help the victim.
www.oldkewgardens.com /kitty_genovese-012.html   (2361 words)

  
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 CRISP - The Conflict Resolution in Schools Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Equally studies in Altruism and bystander apathy indicate that the reluctance to help others increases with the number of potential other people present who could help.
Bystander apathy is defined as "people are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone" (Baron and Byrne 2000).
As playground environments are always full of children, then very few are willing to be the ones who step forward to help.
www.crispuk.org /blind_eye.html   (208 words)

  
 Self-Quiz on Social Psychology
No, many bystander apathy studies were conducted on non-urban college campuses, and similar effects occurred.
No, even the people who failed to respond to the famous Kitty Genovese attack (which started the research on bystander apathy) were not hostile toward her, and some eventually tried to help her.
No, this has never been cited as a factor in bystander apathy, although it could be a factor in preventing witnesses of a crime from stepping forward to aid prosecution of a criminal.
www.psychwww.com /selfquiz/ch15mcq.htm   (1329 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Research into Bystander Behaviour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is a common phenomenon and is known as bystander effect.
A bystander is a person who is present when an event or emergency is happening.
If bystanders do not intervene to help the person in distress this is bystander apathy.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1040851   (797 words)

  
 McGraw-Hill/Dushkin: PowerWeb Article
The classic example of such bystander inaction and the one that has produced the most debate in journalistic, political, and scientific circles began as an ordinary homicide case in New York City’s borough of Queens.
Clearly, then, as a victim you must do more than alert bystanders to your need for emergency assistance; you must also remove their uncertainties about how that assistance should be provided and who should provide it.
Do not allow bystanders to come to their own conclusions because, especially in a crowd, the principle of social proof and the consequent pluralistic ignorance effect might well cause them to view your situation as a nonemergency.
www.dushkin.com /olc/genarticle.mhtml?article=19480   (3434 words)

  
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 The Social Psychology of Computer-Mediated Communication   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Markey (2000) discusses the bystander effect in CMC and argues that the same laws that have been traditionally applied to personal interaction also exist in cyberspace.
This author reports real life examples of bystander apathy in on-line news groups and chat lines and reports empirical evidence of factors contributing to this phenomenon in CMC environments.
Under such conditions, bystander apathy would not have any effect on the likelihood of that person helping since she would not be looking to other potential helpers for information cues about the situation (e.g., cues about whether someone really needs help, or cues about whether help has already been provided).
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 Describe and evaluate two explanations of the behaviour of crowds.
This includes deindividuation, bystander apathy, social contagion, and density-intensity hypothesis.
Research into bystander intervention started during the mid-sixties in response to the assault and eventual murder of Kitty Genovese.
When there was one other bystander 62% helped and when there were four bystanders 31% helped.
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 Approach: Can you hear me now? The importance of reporting radio-communication problems
The TV show "20/20" recently did a piece on bystander apathy--a sociological phenomenon that occurs when a group of people knows something's wrong, but all stand by and do nothing because they think someone else is fixing it.
The question for us today is whether bystander apathy is happening in naval-aviation radio communications.
We are talking about communications you missed because you couldn't hear what was said--about having a hearing loss that does not improve over time, about taking corrective action to help prevent further hearing loss, and to improve the ability to hear important communication that may prevent accidents.
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Overview Five studies merged the priming methodology with the bystander apathy literature and demonstrate how merely priming a social context at Time 1 leads to less helping behavior on a subsequent, completely unrelated task at Time 2.
The implicit bystander effect described in the Garcia et al.
Latané, Darley, and others suggest that the inaction of Kitty Genovese’s neighbors can be explained via the bystander effect, which is the theory that the presence of other people makes an individual less likely to intervene in an emergency.
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 LOL Don't Be A Bystander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The bystanders could be nations observing the killing in Sarjevo, policemen observing the beating of Rodney King, or everyday citizens passing a person clearly in need of help.
Essentially this indicates that inaction by a bystander is often seen as unspoken acceptance of the situation.
Staub thinks that the mindset of the officers can be changed – so even as bystanders – they will consider themselves responsible for what their fellow officers do.
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