Bystander Behavior Essay

“The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in the month of June in 1948. The story is about an annual tradition, called the lottery, held in an anonymous small village. All of the villagers gather for the annual event and Mr. Summers conducts a quick roll call. Each one of the residents of the village draws a piece of paper from the black box. As this happens, the villagers start to talk with one another how some nearby villages have stopped following the tradition of the lottery.…

Ana Mendieta was a sculptor, painter, video, and performance artist who had created an earth-body art series, Siluetas, for many reasons; as well as a way to mimic her own life and her culture of origin. Mendieta had said that the making of her silueta in nature as a form of art was “..a way of reclaiming (her) roots and becoming one with nature.” At twelve years old in 1961, Ana Mendieta was sent by her parents to the United States from Havana, Cuba. This was a turbulent time in her country…

Nate Bretches Diffusion of Responsibility and the Bystander Effect Rough Draft “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call Police” (Manning et al.). This is the famous article title written by journalist Martin Gansberg of the New York Times two weeks after the brutal rape and murder of Kitty Genovese (Manning et al.). This case is really quite fascinating. On the early morning of March 13th, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a young woman living in the Kew Gardens district of Queens, New York, was brutally murdered…

of the time when others are around, according to the University of Minnesota. This phenomenon is called the bystander effect. People are eighty percent more likely to help someone in need when they are alone versus around other people. Everyone would like to think that they would help someone in need, but in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, a small town’s lottery is a symbol of the bystander effect and how no one questions tradition. The children collect rocks to use for the stoning, everyone…

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” by Elie Wiesel are examples on why bystanders are guilty. People are obligated to stand up for others in need no matter the cost because it is the right thing to do. Bystanders are guilty because doing nothing and just watching can do as much as go against the victim. People have to look out for eachother. Bystanders should step up when they see injustice because”Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim” (8,…

In 1969, Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered in Los Angeles, California, by the Manson Family. Sharon was eight and half months pregnant at the time. Ten years later Sharon’s mother, Doris, organised a public campaign when she discovered the offenders were requesting parole. Doris gave several high-profile interviews outlining the impact that Sharon’s death had on their family and eventually served on the California State Advisory Committee on Correctional Services as a victims'…

The Bystander Effect On March 13, 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was murdered in front of her apartment complex in New York. Multiple bystanders witnessed parts of the event but failed to offer any assistance (Latane and Darley). Later, exaggerated media accounts after her death generated wide spread outrage and speculation. This incident led to the first modern research conducted by Latane and Darley on the root causes of what is now known today as the “bystander effect”. Phycologists now…

I read an article posted on the CNN website titled, ‘Gang rape raises questions about bystanders ' role’ and it deals with the issues and meaning of the bystander effect. The article discusses a situation where a girl was at a school dance and she was being gang raped, and instead of people helping her, people instead took pictures and videos and some even joined in. To give some background, the bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do…

The murder of Kitty Genovese is a very touchy subject. No one really knows the truth. Was there 37 or 38 witnesses? Psychologists say they only found a half a dozen witnesses, and the 6 people who seen it, didn’t see the whole incident. In 1964, Kitty Genovese was attacked, raped and murdered in her home by a man named Winston Moseley after returning from her job early on March 13, 1964. Winston approached Kitty as she was walking toward her home. As Kitty began to run away in fear, she was…

The Death of Kitty Genovese Martin Gansberg was a reporter for the New York times for over 40 years. He was born in Brooklyn, and he earned an award for excellence for writing this article in 1964. Gansberg tells us the story of the murder of “Kitty.” A twenty-eight-year-old Catherine Genovese, who was called “Kitty” by almost everyone in the neighborhood. The man stabbed Kitty to death. Kitty cried for help, and the neighbors heard her, but did not do much to help. After Kitty was dead, the…