The Bystander Effect: A Psychological Phenomenon
The skit above is a psychology cartoon which depicts the bystander effect. The image shows clearly information that these four people no matter their race, gender, or age difference, no one is acting to help this man who lying on the ground. Everyone saw this person but all of them just believe maybe someone else will go and attend to him, so they all leave. This kind of situation is called bystander effect.
Actually bystander effect is an example case under the topic of Prosocial Behavior (Kendra, n.d.). It indicated a extensive scope of actions that people behave as a person who kindly to help, share and collaboration with others (Kendra, n.d.). The bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon illustrate even a person at the scene of the dangerous, he/she still not give a hand to the victim when there are other people present. The …show more content…
They denoted a thinking from human being was that when an emergency case happened in front, people realize this severity level and will kind of persuade self that someone will intervene for sure, so just stand by the victim. They believed the reason that no one took steps to help Kitty Genovese was a phenomenon which they called diffusion of responsibility. Diffusion of responsibility is indicted the phenomenon about the number of people in the group increased, the subject felt less personal or individual responsibility to take action. They implemented few experiments by putting two, three or six of people in a group then see how quickly the subjects will help during the seizure. The result shows that when two people see this kind of case happening they will respond 100% under a minute. If there are 3 people in a group, the chances they will report the emergency is around 85 percent, and the group of 6 people is even less then 60% and the average delay in responding is around four-minute (McGill,
Actually bystander effect is an example case under the topic of Prosocial Behavior (Kendra, n.d.). It indicated a extensive scope of actions that people behave as a person who kindly to help, share and collaboration with others (Kendra, n.d.). The bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon illustrate even a person at the scene of the dangerous, he/she still not give a hand to the victim when there are other people present. The …show more content…
They denoted a thinking from human being was that when an emergency case happened in front, people realize this severity level and will kind of persuade self that someone will intervene for sure, so just stand by the victim. They believed the reason that no one took steps to help Kitty Genovese was a phenomenon which they called diffusion of responsibility. Diffusion of responsibility is indicted the phenomenon about the number of people in the group increased, the subject felt less personal or individual responsibility to take action. They implemented few experiments by putting two, three or six of people in a group then see how quickly the subjects will help during the seizure. The result shows that when two people see this kind of case happening they will respond 100% under a minute. If there are 3 people in a group, the chances they will report the emergency is around 85 percent, and the group of 6 people is even less then 60% and the average delay in responding is around four-minute (McGill,