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    .Many of us have experienced the frightening position of being a bystander‚ whether we were witnessing a fight in school‚ or a crime out on the streets. However‚ Most of us are unaware of how to respond to what we have seen. Is it our duty to intervene? Or keep to ourselves? Although it may seem the situation is none of your business‚ when not intervening you are actually becoming part of the problem and are just as guilty as the bully or criminal. However direct intervention isn’t always the solution

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    In Conflict there are those who choose to sit on the side and ignore or turn a blind eye to the situation at hand. Bystanders that do so are often overpowered by the pressures of conflict and are forced to take part in the conflict or create another further complicating the matters involved. When a Bystanders values and opinions are challenged indirectly they generally shrug the opposing value and opinion off‚ ignoring the actions or words that have challenge them‚ but an individual can only do this

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    Bystander Effect/Diffusion of Responsibility Psychology Interview Questionnaire 1. What is the bystander effect/diffusion of responsibility in your own opinion? 2. What is the Malaysian’s level of awareness towards the bystander effect? 3. How is the ‘bystander effect’ situation in Malaysia at the moment? 4. What are the factors that cause the bystander effect? 5. What triggers someone to help only after they see another person take action first? 6. Does time factor play an important role

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    ‘The Bystander Effect’ Lily is thirteen years old and tall for her age. One afternoon‚ she confronts a suspicious looking stranger near a young girl playing in the local park. The stranger takes to his heels when Lily challenges him. Lily’s bravery is the talk of the neighbourhood. On learning of this‚ a student who is studying social psychology makes the comment: It’s just as well that Lily’s usual playmates were not around or that little girl might not have received any help. (Vaughan and

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    Question # 3: The murder of twenty eight year old Catherine (Kitty) Genovese on the morning of March 13th‚ 1964 was one that would be remembered in history as prompting the discovery of the “bystander effect”. The 1960’s was an era of change within the United States. The military draft and Vietnam War had caused uproar amongst the youth who now turned to psychoactive drugs for recreation and were slowly succumbing to the rise of the hippie movement. “Free love” stemmed from this movement

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    Bystander Intervention 1----Social Psychology Eye Skip to contentHomeAboutDisclaimerFeatured JournalsNews Editors ← Social and Personality Psychology Compass first Video AbstractAffirmative action for women in Iraq →Bystanders… just standing by. When do people help and when do they not? Posted on March 13‚ 2011 by ezaiser| 1 Comment By Erica Zaiser Understanding when and why people intervene to help others‚ or when they don’t‚ is at the heart of social psychology. All students of psychology

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    THE BYSTANDER EFFECT The bystander effect is the name given to a social psychological phenomenon in cases where individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present. It is a situational ambiguity; when we are confused about a situation and unconsciously interpret the event as if nothing is happening unusual. Some researchers have found that onlookers are less likely to intervene if the situation is ambiguous. We usually develop an illusion of normality

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    Bystander Intervention by Viv Burr Introduction Kitty Genovese – murdered by Winston Mosely in early hours of morning‚ during March 1964. - 38 people are reported to have heard her cries for help or witnessed part of the event (over 30 minutes)‚ but no-one intervened. Press coverage of the time suggested failure to intervene was due to the apathy and indifference of New Yorkers (dispositional explanation) Darley and Latané were not convinced by this view and through a series of lab experiments

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    10-29-2010 Psychology Bystander Effect Essay In New York City around 1964‚ a 29-year-old woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death. Despite hearing cries nobody reported this incident to the police; only because they assumed that someone else would or has already done it. Although murders in New York are not uncommon‚ the circumstances surrounding Kitty’s death have saved her story to be a strangely literal illustration of what is now a well-known psychological effect: the Bystander Effect. The Bystander

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    assignment‚ I will critically evaluate 8 research articles relevant to my topic of “Do gender‚ culture‚ and age groups influence the way society acts as a described by the bystander effect”? Bystander Intervention in a Crime: The Effect of a Mass-media Campaign Leonard Bickman‚ 1975 Two studies were performed in order to investigate bystander intervention during a staged shop-lifting in a campus bookstore. The first study began with an advertisement against shop-lifting in the campus newspaper that outlined

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