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The Bystander Effect. Alison McAuliffe Alycia Best. The Bystander Effect. Social psychological phenomenon in which individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when others are present. "Genovese Syndrome". Most famous case of the bystander effect ever. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Social psychological phenomenon in which individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when others are
present.
•Most famous case of the bystander effect ever
Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in 1964. The murder continued for half an hour while thirty-eight
bystanders watched without intervening or notifying the police.
The Holocaust is a great example of the bystander effect because the towns and cities near the
concentration camps knew fully well of the atrocities and horror inside the camps. These citizens could smell
the camps from as far as twenty miles away before finding them. Therefore, the mayhem could not be ignored. The populations made no effort to stop the torture, yet they were forced to clean up the corpses
and bury them in mass graves.
[Germans] were also victims of cultural ethical relativism, believing that if their government thought that [genocide] was ethically relative behavior in their culture, then they should comply.
In other cases, with more people, individuals are less likely to take responsibility. They assume that someone else will intervene.
(1991) Philosophical Ethics, An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Second Edition
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out
— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Martin Niemöller
1. Bystanders know one another.2. Witnesses have special bond to the victim.3. Bystanders think that the victim is
especially dependent on them.4. Bystanders have considerable training in
emergency intervention.5. Witnesses have knowledge of the bystander
effect.
Researchers stage an emergency situation to test the bystander effect.
Examples of these situations include epileptic seizures, women falling and becoming injured, or smoke pouring from an air vent. Once they have staged a condition they measure how long it takes until participants or bystanders intervene.
Results to these experiments almost always conclude that the presence of others restrains the willingness to help.
“If you are in a crowd and you look and see that everyone is doing
nothing, then nothing becomes the norm.”
Drew Carberry, A director on the National Counsel of Crime Prevention