Bystander Effect Case Studies

The bystander effect refers to the scenarios where those who are in need of help in a case of an emergency are not provided with it when their in presence of other people. This is a social psychological occurrence that conventionally, it is found to have an inverse relationship that has a great deal of affect on the probability of the percentage of bystanders that will intervene and help if the numbers of the other bystanders. . Psychologist refer to it as ' Diffusion of responsibly' which involves ambiguity and cohesiveness. This is usually as when in the presence of other witnesses the bystander will identify the emergency situation as handled by assuming that someone else has reported the incident of is helping in another form, therefore …show more content…
This was done when numerous studies and experiments were conducted by Darley and Latane within 12 years as an attempt to discover the reasons in why no one had helped. (bystander effect). Darley and Latane staged many emergency situations and placed their participants within others and alone to identify and explain their responses to the emergency and how often they wood take intervention measures. The results usually provided evidence that by considerable margin the presence of other bystanders inhibited the participants/ bystanders from helping. Darley and Latane provided their participants with questionnaires while shortly after staging an emergency situation but filling the room with smoke. The results from this test then determined that when the participants were alone 75 percent reported the smoke, however when in a group with two other individuals only 38 percent of the participants reported the emergency. Only 10 percent of the participants in the final group reported the emergency as two confederates noted but ignored the smoke. ( Miles, Klaus and Wolfgang