Human behaviour continues to be a common area of research in psychology.in the last century researchers have investigated possible factors concerning Pro-social and Anit-prosocial behaviour prosocial behaviour is any behaviour that is meant to help other people while Anit-prosocial behaviour is the direct opposite (Natalie Boyd, altruism-and-prosocial-behaviour-definition-predictors http://study.com) Helping behaviours involves going out of one’s way to offer help to someone in need including bystander intervention. However certain events such as the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder have sparked interest in the reason why people, seem reluctant to help others. The bystander effect describes the phenomenon in which such individuals are less likely to seek help or give assistance when others are present.
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The results indicate that the greater influence of the male model, as compared with the female model, was due to his greater ability to provide information which could be accepted as a valid definition of the emergency
The results indicate that the greater influence of the male model, as compared with the female model, was due to his greater ability to provide information which could be accepted as a valid definition of the emergency