Ever wonder when there is someone in need of help and want to help he/she/them out, such as a stranger, but were too scared, nervous, or even had to wait until someone else gets involved in order to help? In this chapter, “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing” by Lauren Slater, from the book Opening Skinner’s Box, takes us to a bizarre psychological behavior that involves the help of others or groups. In this area, we get to see how people react when a stranger is in a need of help during a distressed situation. Ask yourself the question what should I do?
Slater introduces two psychologist who studied the human styles of crisis management, John Darley and Bibb Latane. Both of them studied the case of human group behavior with the Kitty …show more content…
They decided to an experiment about how soon people will react to when someone is acting having a seizure. During the actor was doing their epileptic episode, the subjects were in a state of shock saying “My god he’s having a fit”, “Oh god, what should I do”, they were in fear and shaking and because they felt upset that they didn’t get a chance to help them the actor at a reasonable reaction time. Darley and Latane stated, “When subject believed he or she was in a group of four or more, the subject was unlikely to seek help for the victim. On the other hand, eighty-five percent of subjects who believed they were in a dyad with the epileptic student with no other bystander, sought help and did so within the first three minutes of the crisis (Slater 100). What these psychologists are trying to imply is, while being in a group it is less likely to help someone out because the other people in the group are waiting for everyone else to react so that person can react; also, when someone is near you that you don’t know and start to have an episode you are more likely to help them out. Myself, don’t fully agree with Darley and Latane due to the fact is going back to my mugging incident. I was by myself when it occurred, despite I could have help out but was paralyzed with fear and being helpless. When the incident was over, I was the that the person was okay a bit …show more content…
Preventing a change danger could be easier than to actually help out during the danger being in play. Mrs. Slater states, “Darley and Latane’s work shows us that even something as supposedly stark as a crisis is really malleable narrative; emergencies are not a fact, but conscious construction and this may be why we fail” (Slater103). In relation, what they are trying to come across is whenever we see a possible danger that is about to occur we immediately try to take care of it right away but we tend to prevent the situation from happening but we do not tend to take care of danger that is occurring. Mr. Darley and Mr. Latane conducted another experiment with this type of response; they included a room full of people with two college one of them knew the experiment but the other didn’t; the subjects were instructed for them to fill out a form but while they were filling out the forms a non-toxic smoke started spewing out of the vent. They didn’t know if was toxic or not so some of the subjects remained calm and others were alarmed of the situation and one of them decided to get up to see what is wrong with vent. A very similar situation happens very often, such as when we are driving we, at times, often tend to be alert to see any upcoming dangers from happening but when we see an approaching incident either we tend to slow down or we honk our horns to notify the driver and also any
Slater introduces two psychologist who studied the human styles of crisis management, John Darley and Bibb Latane. Both of them studied the case of human group behavior with the Kitty …show more content…
They decided to an experiment about how soon people will react to when someone is acting having a seizure. During the actor was doing their epileptic episode, the subjects were in a state of shock saying “My god he’s having a fit”, “Oh god, what should I do”, they were in fear and shaking and because they felt upset that they didn’t get a chance to help them the actor at a reasonable reaction time. Darley and Latane stated, “When subject believed he or she was in a group of four or more, the subject was unlikely to seek help for the victim. On the other hand, eighty-five percent of subjects who believed they were in a dyad with the epileptic student with no other bystander, sought help and did so within the first three minutes of the crisis (Slater 100). What these psychologists are trying to imply is, while being in a group it is less likely to help someone out because the other people in the group are waiting for everyone else to react so that person can react; also, when someone is near you that you don’t know and start to have an episode you are more likely to help them out. Myself, don’t fully agree with Darley and Latane due to the fact is going back to my mugging incident. I was by myself when it occurred, despite I could have help out but was paralyzed with fear and being helpless. When the incident was over, I was the that the person was okay a bit …show more content…
Preventing a change danger could be easier than to actually help out during the danger being in play. Mrs. Slater states, “Darley and Latane’s work shows us that even something as supposedly stark as a crisis is really malleable narrative; emergencies are not a fact, but conscious construction and this may be why we fail” (Slater103). In relation, what they are trying to come across is whenever we see a possible danger that is about to occur we immediately try to take care of it right away but we tend to prevent the situation from happening but we do not tend to take care of danger that is occurring. Mr. Darley and Mr. Latane conducted another experiment with this type of response; they included a room full of people with two college one of them knew the experiment but the other didn’t; the subjects were instructed for them to fill out a form but while they were filling out the forms a non-toxic smoke started spewing out of the vent. They didn’t know if was toxic or not so some of the subjects remained calm and others were alarmed of the situation and one of them decided to get up to see what is wrong with vent. A very similar situation happens very often, such as when we are driving we, at times, often tend to be alert to see any upcoming dangers from happening but when we see an approaching incident either we tend to slow down or we honk our horns to notify the driver and also any