The Bystander Intervention Model

Results. In this study of 494 participants, which consisted of 232 males and 262 females who were primarily White/European 75.1%, Asian 11.5%, Black/African-American 7.5%, Latino/Hispanic 3.2% or other racial background 2.6%. The total participants that were registered donor 19.8% or 98, 30.2% or 149 informed their family of their donation. Those who had prior experience with organ donation were 4.3% or 21 who knew of someone waiting for an organ and 23.5% or 116 knew someone living or deceased who was a donor (Anker, & Feeley, 2011). The researchers’ consideration of the organ donation study in the context of a bystander intervention model might also contribute to a larger literature on organ donation decision making. In traditional models …show more content…
This is illustrated as the bystander effect took place in social influence and diffusion of responsibility in the classical study of the murder of Kitty Genovese. The historical formation of the research on group dynamics and the influences on prosocial behavior of Kurt Lewin and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues were discussed and how Darley and Latane’ changed the future of research on prosocial behavior of modern psychology. In the study of Rudd Hortensius, Dennis Schutter, & Beatrice de Gelder, 2016, and their discovery of a spontaneous help behavior within an emergency is caused by the bystander’s personality and the factors of the social situation of the emergency. They were determined to explore what influences of sympathy, personal distress, and the self or other oriented response that effected the bystander during an emergency. In the study of Ashely Anker and Thomas Feeley, who used the bystander intervention of Darley and Latane’ in the context of an organ donation for their study, discovered that a nonparticipant in a prosocial helping situation is an innocent bystander who fails to notice a need to help, does not interpret the situation as an emergency, will not accept the responsibility to help, and does not have knowledge of how to help is a fact in why the bystander may be consider innocent for not helping in an emergency situation. Finally, as the human race and especially if we are Christians there should be not circumstance for not helping a person that we know is in an emergency situation and are a witness to the emergency. I believe that God has equipped us with the know how to help even when we do not believe we know what to do. “The Holy