Kitty Genovese

Sexual Assault—Bystander Effect and Bystander Intervene Introduction In the wake of ubiquitous technologies that surrounds people, such as convenient smartphone and social media on the internet, snapping a picture or filming a video and then share them on the internet become a universal phenomenon, especially in young people. However, excessive information on the internet gives users an illusion that mishaps, melancholies, and even fatal events seen on the internet are just common and normal,…

In this assignment the Kitty Genovese story shows how tragic the bystander effect is and how apathetic people are. The story is about how a woman who was stabbed by a man while people ignored, and called the police only after she was already dead. The empathetic idea of this assignment is people would want help if they were in Kitty Genovese’s situation, so why not do the same? The bystander effect increases a negative aspects…

someone else's affairs is the correct thing to do. But what about situations where someone's life is at risk? What happens when minding your own business and keeping to yourself costs the life of an innocent person? It was just after 3 AM when Kitty Genovese, trying to get home from her job as a bar manager, was suddenly overtaken and violently stabbed by a man who quickly left the scene after the…

The behaviour of bystanders, that is people who witnesses an emergency, has been studied by social psychologists in order to gain an understanding of the ways in which people respond to witnessing an event such as a crime, accident or other form of emergency situation taking place. By explaining the key points taken from two case studies which have been used by social scientists to build their arguments about the ways in which bystanders behave, this essay will first give two different examples…

The research doesn’t surprise me, however, the case of Catherine Genovese (p. 288) does. Even after reading the chapter, it’s still hard to believe no one at least called the police. It does make sense that confusion will often cause people to not act. Kenrick, Neuberg, & Cialdini (2015), state that, Observers fail to help not so much because they are unkind as because they are unsure. They are often unsure of whether helping is appropriate. If they decide that it is, they are often unsure that…

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…

The average person only helps twenty percent 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…

Moreover, the three theoretical perspectives in sociology also portray some reasoning behind the effect. First, the symbolic interactionism theory would most likely suggest that bystander inactivity results when there is a lack of symbolic meaning or communication. They would include that symbols can promote different behavior. Someone walking by two boys fighting may not intend on acting until they recognize their brother as one of the participants. This symbolic relationship would encourage…

Unlikely Event of a Water Landing” Two young psychologists, John Darley and Bibb Latane, put together two well thought out experiments to rationalize the response time of individuals in groups. After reading about the brutal attack of Catherine Genovese in New York in 1964, which ultimately lead to her death, the two men were on a mission to figure out why nobody helped. Even with the witnesses being awakened by her screams, they chose to do nothing about it until it was too late. After Darley…

On April 18, 2010 at around 5:30 AM, Hugo Alfred Tale-Yax, a homeless man, was stabbed multiple times by a mugger when trying to help a woman who was about to be the mugger’s victim. He collapsed to the floor and lay there until he died from major blood loss even though about twenty people had walked by that hour (cite). Why would the people just walk by and not at least ask if the man was doing okay? A social psychological phenomenon in which individuals do not assist a victim when others are…