Understanding The Bystander Effect

This article talks about how the bystander effect works and how it affects people in certain situations. The bystander effect happens when a person sees an emergency situation and does nothing, thinking someone else will help. In experiments done by John Darley and Bibb Latane, when a room that contained one subject and two calm non subjects, as smoke filled the room “only 10% left to get help” (Burkley). To avoid the bystander effect a bystander must recognize the diffusion of responsibility. Diffusion of responsibility makes the witnesses believe they are partially responsible for helping and not full responsible. To combat this, a witness must realize their first instinct “will be to deny responsibility for helping the victim” and the bystander