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Greitemeyer, T., & Mügge, D. O. (2015). When bystanders increase rather than decrease intentions to help. Social Psychology, 46(2), 116-119. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a 000215.
In the article,”When Bystanders Increase Rather Than Decrease Intentions to Help”, Tobias Greitemeyer and Dirk Oliver Mügge discussed how a person is less likely to help other individuals in the presence of others based on the research of Darley and Latane. Based on the past studies on the Bystander effect, the ability of help individuals in a situation do not always decrease regarding the presence of others. The idea of this experiment is to find if a person is more likely to help individual if help is on the way. Before conducting the experiment, Greitemeyer …show more content…
Situational Characteristics Of The Emergency”, Russell, D. Clark III and Larry E. Word discussed about the interest of the bystander effects in situations. Based on the studies of Darley and Latane, studies proved that people are less likely to help in a situation in the presence of others, giving the responsibilities to the other individuals in the group to help in the situation. The article also included different studies from different psychologist about the bystander effect. The idea is if a person alone or in a group are they more likely to help in a nonemergency situation than an emergency situation. In this article, the authors decided to conduct to two different experiments. Before conducting the experiment, the authors predicted that people are less likely to help in an emergency situation. The first experiment had males participants from the University of Florida. The participants were given a U.S navy test then after taking the test,participants were randomly assigned to four different experimental group ranging from non emergency, dangerous, emergency. The results of this experiment showed that the prediction was not going so well. Before conducting the second experiment, the author predicted that people in a group were more likely to help in a alone setting during an emergency setting. The second experiment had 72 males from the same university , they were assigned to an alone situation or with a group. The …show more content…
how the methods used allow researchers to come to that conclusion?
After reading many articles on the Bystander effect, I was able to understand a bit more about the theory and why many psychologist would research it in the past. For me, the bystander effect theory is to show if an individual is less likely to help when being alone or being in the presence of other individuals. The theory is usually presented in a public setting, and being able to see the behavior of others. The behaviors are between helping or thinking the other individuals are going to help. Mostly in the bystander effect theory, the responsibility is usually depends on other individuals if is in a group setting than a single person setting. Mostly in the articles I have read, most of the results shown that individuals are more likely to help in a group setting than being
Greitemeyer, T., & Mügge, D. O. (2015). When bystanders increase rather than decrease intentions to help. Social Psychology, 46(2), 116-119. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a 000215.
In the article,”When Bystanders Increase Rather Than Decrease Intentions to Help”, Tobias Greitemeyer and Dirk Oliver Mügge discussed how a person is less likely to help other individuals in the presence of others based on the research of Darley and Latane. Based on the past studies on the Bystander effect, the ability of help individuals in a situation do not always decrease regarding the presence of others. The idea of this experiment is to find if a person is more likely to help individual if help is on the way. Before conducting the experiment, Greitemeyer …show more content…
Situational Characteristics Of The Emergency”, Russell, D. Clark III and Larry E. Word discussed about the interest of the bystander effects in situations. Based on the studies of Darley and Latane, studies proved that people are less likely to help in a situation in the presence of others, giving the responsibilities to the other individuals in the group to help in the situation. The article also included different studies from different psychologist about the bystander effect. The idea is if a person alone or in a group are they more likely to help in a nonemergency situation than an emergency situation. In this article, the authors decided to conduct to two different experiments. Before conducting the experiment, the authors predicted that people are less likely to help in an emergency situation. The first experiment had males participants from the University of Florida. The participants were given a U.S navy test then after taking the test,participants were randomly assigned to four different experimental group ranging from non emergency, dangerous, emergency. The results of this experiment showed that the prediction was not going so well. Before conducting the second experiment, the author predicted that people in a group were more likely to help in a alone setting during an emergency setting. The second experiment had 72 males from the same university , they were assigned to an alone situation or with a group. The …show more content…
how the methods used allow researchers to come to that conclusion?
After reading many articles on the Bystander effect, I was able to understand a bit more about the theory and why many psychologist would research it in the past. For me, the bystander effect theory is to show if an individual is less likely to help when being alone or being in the presence of other individuals. The theory is usually presented in a public setting, and being able to see the behavior of others. The behaviors are between helping or thinking the other individuals are going to help. Mostly in the bystander effect theory, the responsibility is usually depends on other individuals if is in a group setting than a single person setting. Mostly in the articles I have read, most of the results shown that individuals are more likely to help in a group setting than being