Kitty Genovese

This paper will be exploring five peer reviewed journals about the Bystander Effect. What is the Bystander Effect? It’s how the presence of others inhibits helping (Kassin, Fein, Markus, & Brehm, 2008). When a group of people are around and someone is hurt, it’s unlikely that the person who is hurt will get the help they need because the group is large enough that everyone will think someone else will call for help. The articles in this paper range from how bystanders will react to rape…

Civilization may be difficult within a group of boys, but it’s no different compared to society as a whole. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies in a nutshell - A plane full of boys crash on an island with no adult supervision in sight - what is thought to be a great time, many things went wrong in various social situations with the boys. Social psychological phenomena are instances of human behavior presented in a social context - with other human beings. Two social psychological phenomena…

Kitty Genovese is referenced, a woman who was assaulted and killed on the street twenty-two years ago, whose neighbors heard screaming for help, and was ignored. He argued that in this case, we have given all the power to the person committing the crime. That…

In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948), she conveys through her character’s actions the morbid reality of what people are willing to do in order to survive. Jackson created the image of a cheerful small village where everyone knows everyone to make the reader realize that surviving is human nature. And the actions needed for survival can be anywhere and at any time. By using ‘the lottery’ to choose a human sacrifice, Jackson is able to directly convey a theme of survival. Each character in…

Reciprocal altruism; simply the idea that we offer assistance and expect it returned, is undeniably practiced with the motivation of one’s personal wellbeing in mind. Similarly, the concept of motivation also provides a logical understanding of kin selection whereby we are inclined to help our genetic related, as aiding one’s family will ultimate better one’s self. A cost rewards analysis, as well as social exclusion can also be depicted as highly motivated by a person’s needs and survival;…

As social media continues to expand and change, the unswerving usage among its networking sites in adolescents has also augmented. These social media sites permits its youth to explore a new form of entertainment and communication in a way to expand their knowledge over certain interests, trend or insightfulness. As the consistencies of these social networks develop, growing concerns of prospective issues such as cyberbullying among adolescents are also expanding in a manner that has led…