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Social & Emotional InfluenceMember ingredient
Bystander Effect
In some group situations, each individual may be less likely or slower to help because responsibility and interpretation are shared across the people present.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
Would I Be Helped? Cross-National CCTV Footage Shows That Intervention Is the Norm in Public Conflicts
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- What it supports
- At least one bystander intervened in roughly nine out of ten conflicts, usually with several interveners. More bystanders were associated with a greater aggregate chance that someone helped.
- Where it may not transfer
- Observation cannot randomly assign crowd size or isolate diffusion of responsibility, and CCTV coding captures visible public conflict rather than private, online or non-violent situations. Aggregate intervention is different from each individual's likelihood of acting.
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