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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. A character in which you will be defined as a helping hand, a bully, or the one being bullied. America should be a country where everyone can feel safe in which ever environment from public places, to school, to work. One out of seven students from kindergarten to twelfth grade is either a bully or a victim of bullying, and it is estimated that 160,000 students miss school every day due to fear of an attack. Would you want that fear to spread to someone close to you or yourself? In American schools there are about 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million victims, statistics are increasing every day.…
Every day, somewhere in the world, someone is getting bullied and it’s your choice whether or not to do something about it. Most people choose to stay out of harm’s way if they’re not the one getting bullied and few people choose to stand up for themselves if they are the one bullied. I believe that helping or asking for help is the only way to solve a bullying problem. The reason why people choose not to say anything is because they’re scared of what might happen. The “consequence” of telling on someone is what most people think about first, so why put yourself in a place where you don’t need to be right? If it’s not your problem then it’s not a problem to you at all? These thoughts are the reasons why bullying is never stopped.…
The bystander apathy, or bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon that happens when somebody doesn't offer help to a victim when other people are present. There is an inverse relationship between the number of bystanders and the probability of help. This implies that the likelihood of receiving help reduces with an increase in the number of bystanders. There are several explanations for the bystander effect. Although social psychologists have focused on two leading explanations: social influence and diffusion of responsibility. This paper discusses the psychology behind the bystander effects and its impacts on society. (Wikipedia Contributors)…
Throughout life we will find ourselves in situations where another person, possibly a stranger, needs our help. Question number 3 addresses the topic of the bystander effect. Diffusion of responsibility is essentially not feeling an urgent need to step in and help. Because you are assuming that others who are witnessing the circumstances will be the ones to jump in and help (Gilovich et al., 2013). The bystander intervention theory explains that people are less likely to help out in a situation, because they just assume that someone else will do it (Gilovich et al., 2013)). I believe that one of the obstacles that prevent people from helping is that they simply feel underqualified. Perhaps they lack the confidence to help, or they feel…
In the case of bullying, being a bystander instigates and encourages. The passive accepting of the bullying validates the act. If no one is going to act and punish the bully, then their actions must be ok. Watching gives the bully the attention that they’re seeking to gain from acting in such a manner in the first place. A helpful bystander intervenes and seeks help. Bystanders that do not act suffer several adverse consequences emotionally, as shown in the Eyes on Bullying article, ranging from anxiety to fear. Those who choose not to act when confronted with someone being bullied do so for a variety of reasons. Bullyonline talks a lot about environments fostered around bullying that helps facilitate bystanding. School and work places rely on a power structure that can easily be manipulated. Drew Carberry notes that when looking at a crowded environment, when you see that people are doing nothing, “then that becomes the norm.” Mirroring other people’s actions and norms is typical in socialization. In looking at children’s media, there’s always an episode where a bully ends up having a rough home life or some other tragedy that excuses their behavior, not holding them accountable. Lessons taught as children from “snitches get stitches” to “no one likes a tattle-tail” discourage children and really anyone from speaking out. The idea that one shouldn’t tell on other people is deeply ingrained in…
The bystander effect is the name given to a social psychological phenomenon in cases where…
Before, in the 20th century, bullying was a regular thing in everyday life. In this time, no one paid attention to effect that bullying had on kids because no one at the time showed any serious reaction to bullying. In 1999, two seniors at Columbine High School killed a total of 13 people which brought attention to the world. With a link of aggression and bullying, this became more serious issue. Entering the new century, many of those who have had a personal connection with bullying or some one who has been bullied have been speaking out and against this issue while others stay silent against this cause. Those who advocate against bullying and those who stay silent, both participate in this way because of personal experiences and personal fears.…
Bystanders need to realize that bullying is a serious problem, and the lack of action on their part will only give bullies more opportunities to torment their victims. By being in a bystander situation, bystanders need to put themselves in the victim’s shoes. Bullying can…
First of all there is so much a bully can do that a bystander can’t. Bystanders are just bystanders, and they aren’t the ones doing or doing the things to the victim. According to “Tales of Bullying” bullies bully people on the computer. That is called cyber bullying, and it is getting to a greater degree by the second. “tales of Bullying’ also talked about physically bullying it is when somebody touches somebody touches somebody else.…
In conclusion, a bully is worse than a bystander because they can cause people to take their own lives, make them feel bad about themselves, they will lose respect from family members. I recommend you try to put a stop to…
More than ten-thousand kids get bullied each day, causing more than one-thousand teenagers to commit suicide at such a young age. You need to ask yourself these questions, have you ever been jealous of someone else, talked about someone else, or made fun of someone else? If you said yes to any of these questions you’re a bully, or your about to be one, so stop now! A bully is worse than a bystander because it’s their fault if the victim commits suicide, they influence the bystander, and they take their problems out on others.…
Dr 's John M Darley and Bibb Latane are both professors of psychology. Even though they have not attended or worked at the same university, their credibility is equally the same. Their award-winning research was gathered to complete their essay "Why Don 't People Help in a Crisis," they suggest the probability of a bystander helping is correlated to the number of bystanders present. Next Darley and Latane state that, "there are three things a bystander must do to intervene in an emergency." First the bystander must be aware of the situation, second the bystander has to establish if the situation is an emergency, and then third they have to decide if it is their duty to intervene and help the person in need (141). Darley and Latane have done an exceptional job on informing the reader, however, their research fails to take into account outside variables which may call into question the validity of their research.…
In an emergency or crisis, the more bystanders there are, the less likely it is that any of them will actually help. A lot of the times bystanders will assume there is nothing because nobody else seems concerned. Bystanders will notice the event, realize the emergency, assume responsibility, and know what to do or not and last but not least act. John M. Darley and Bibb Latane claim even if a person defines an event as an emergency, the presence of other bystanders may still make him less likely to intervene. Bystanders should help if there is a bad emergency or crisis that they have witnessed.…
To begin with, Bystanders help bullying just by pointing and laughing at the person getting bullied. They do it to be cool like the bully, but they are doing the totally wrong thing. The bully does it because of problems at home but bystanders don’t.…
Indifference empowers wickedness to flourish in our society. The speech “The Perils of Indifference”, by Elie Wiesel and the article, “The Murder of Kitty Genovese”, by Linda Melazzo both argue that a bystander’s actions play a huge part in an evil situation. They show the problems bystanders have triggered while describing the positive effects of people who took action during the situation. Both authors show how the only way to stop tragic events from occurring again is to speak up above the silent observers. The authors use ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade readers into never being a bystander during disturbing times, and instead, take action for your morals.…