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chance you’ll help or get help. However, if you are with multiple bystanders, you’ll only be 30% likely to retrieve help. (Burkley, 2009) This phenomenon is known as the Bystander effect. This happens when a group of people see that something is wrong, but don’t help. This paper will delve into why the bystander effect occurs and how people can actively stop it from occurring. Many psychologists such as Latane and Bibb have researched extensively into this terrible phenomenon. It will go into…

It all started in 1964, with one murder, outside an apartment building where 38 witnesses did nothing. The bystander effect is a serious issue that has worked its way from the physical world to the online world. Social media outlets have contributed to the bystander effect in which nobody assumes responsibility in a crisis. In the “Kitty” Genovese Case in 1964, New York City, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese was brutally murdered on her way home. She screamed for help as she was attacked, raped, and…

faith where everyone was blinded to her demise. This psychological concept is known as the bystander effect which Wikipedia define as a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present. The probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. A well-known case of the bystander effect was an article “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” written by Martin Gansberg. It was in…

that they fertilized so that they continue the genes through the offspring. Koh has seen the altruistic behavior that is a way to preserving one’s genetic material. Darley & Latané (1968 and 1969), and Eagly & Crowley (1968) observed the bystander effect that as the number of bystanders increase the total number of someone to help decrease. They have found that if only one person was to stand by and help they are likely to help the person in trouble. In March 1964, a case of a young woman, Kitty…

annually in the United States alone (Hayes et al, 2010). Atrazine is used so frequently because it is cheap and it increases crop yield. However, it has been found that atrazine in levels even as low as 2 ppb (parts per billion) can have adverse effects on the reproductive systems of many vertebrates, which includes humans (Hayes et al, 2010). According to Hayes et al’s research (2010), 10% of male African clawed frogs that were induced with 2.5 ppb of Atrazine became females. These feminized…

The “CSI Effect” which is the effect of crime television shows on the verdicts made in court cases or on other aspects of the criminal justice system. The perceived rise in acquittals can also plausibly by explained without any reference either to watching CSI or to view crime drama more generally. Tyler (2006), stated, “With an ever-increasing number of crime television programs in which forensic tests are used to solve a case in the course of a single episode. Many criminal justice officials…

In 1935, John Ridley Stroop discovered the Stroop Effect. It is an experiment based on the amount of time it takes to identify the color of words that are printed on paper. The attempt to identify the color in which the words are printed takes an extended amount of time when the colored word contrasts from the color of the ink rather than when the colored word is identical to the ink color it is printed in. This is also known as “interference.” Humans are so talented at reading that they can…

The bystander effect as coined by Pyschologytoday.com is “when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation.” Sophocles, Jonathon Swift, and Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo the writers of; Antigone, A Modest Proposal, and The Banality of Heroism are all stories about the bystander effect. The bystander effect occurs in modern times because it happens in modern schools, all over the world, meaning the crisis of The bystander effect must be stopped .…

‘The Bystander Effect’ is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases, which individuals do not help to a victim when other people are present. The Bystander effect was present in the case of Kitty Genovese. The witnesses of this murder did not call the police nor aid her when she was screaming for help. They waited until the last minute to call the police. This very case has stupefied many people, so they have decided to do more in depth research on the bystander effect phenomenon.…

The Flynn Effect refers to an experiment named after researcher James Flynn in reference to the IQ scores increasing in some population´s human intelligence thru generations. The Flynn Effect goes against intelligence as being natural, stressing the IQ tests can´t really measure intelligence, but some traits are being interrelated with it. As an example, the Flynn Effect, shows that IQ scores today are increased when comparing those from grandparents when being children. The Flynn Effect deals…