Emergency Observation

In 1968, an experiment based on analyzing the level of people’s intervention during an emergency situation was running. This experiment is studied due to a tragic incident that happened in New York; Kitty Genovese was stabbed by an attacker for almost one and half hour while there are 38 present witnesses observed the whole scene, yet none of the witnesses tried to intervene nor calling 911. This incident has come into researcher’s vision and with a question of will the number of people effects the level of intervening? With this question, researchers come up with a hypothesis that more bystanders to an emergency situation, the less likely, or the more slowly, than one bystander will intervene provide aid. Total of 82 students with 13 males …show more content…
Since there are differences between male and female participants in the experiment, researchers made a conclusion based on whether different sex will affect the speed, surprisingly the speed of reporting the emergence between male participants and female participants are almost the same. The result based on the speed between the male of female is against another study by Berkowitz, Klanderman, and Harris; they found out that males tend to be more responsible than females. Yet there are two general classes in intervention in an emergency, one is called direct intervention which often requires strength and physical power and under this circumstance male are likely to response quicker than females. The second class is the indirect intervention which is to report to police or others, and under this circumstances, gender differences did not affect the speed of responding. After the whole experiment, researchers revealed the nature of the experiment to the student and students are given a 15 checklist of asking what is the first thought that comes into your mind, and there is no significant difference of the response from different