bystander effect

Examples of bystander effect in the following topics:

• Noninvolvement and the Diffusion of Responsibility

  • Psychological experiments have demonstrated that individuals are unlikely to consider a situation abnormal if there are sufficient bystanders who act as though the situation is conventional.
  • The bystander effect is another phenomenon that is closely related to diffusion of responsibility.
  • The probability of helping victims is inversely related to the number of bystanders; the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help.
  • The mere presence of bystanders greatly decreases intervention because as the number of bystanders increases, any given bystander is less likely to interpret the incident as a problem and less likely to assume responsibility for taking action.
  • Give examples of the bystander effect, diffusion of responsibility, and anomie in contemporary society

• Power

  • Researchers have documented the "bystander effect" and found that powerful people are three times as likely to first offer help to a stranger in distress.

• Group Influence

  • ., the audience effect), or when competing against another (i.e., the coactor effect).
  • This effect has been demonstrated in a variety of species.
  • Diffusion of responsibility (also called the bystander effect) is a social phenomenon which tends to occur in groups of people above a certain critical size when responsibility is not explicitly assigned.
  • The strongest effect has been found when people rate themselves on abilities at which they are totally incompetent.
  • The effect has been found when people compare themselves to others on many different abilities and personality traits:

• Informal Means of Control

  • Informal social control—the reactions of individuals and groups that bring about conformity to norms and laws—includes peer and community pressure, bystander intervention in a crime, and collective responses such as citizen patrol groups.
  • Agents of socialization can differ in effects.
  • Informal social control—the reactions of individuals and groups that bring about conformity to norms and laws—includes peer and community pressure, bystander intervention in a crime, and collective responses such as citizen patrol groups.

• The Psychology of Persuasion

  • Each individual is persuaded by different things over different time-periods, so to be effective each pitch must be customized.
  • In one experiment, if one or more person looked up into the sky, bystanders would then look up to see what they could see.

• Social Psychology

  • After the war, researchers became interested in a variety of social problems including gender issues, racial prejudice, cognitive dissonance, bystander intervention, aggression, and obedience to authority.
  • His death sparked a heated debate around the country about the effects of racism in the United States.

• The Effects of the Cold War

  • Highly dependent institutional frameworks were to be restructured, and new obligations were acquired by nations that were once bystanders to the East-West confrontation.

• The Collins Case

  • Bystanders to a robbery in Los Angeles testified that the perpetrators had been a black male, with a beard and moustache, and a caucasian female with blonde hair tied in a ponytail.

• Describing Qualitative Data

  • The most common form of qualitative qualitative analysis is observer impression—when an expert or bystander observers examine the data, interpret it via forming an impression and report their impression in a structured and sometimes quantitative form.

• Political Ideology

  • In "the middle" are the optimistic and upwardly mobile "Upbeats", the discouraged and mistrusting "Disaffecteds," and the disenfranchised "Bystanders. " The right compromises the highly pro-business "Enterprisers," the highly religious "Social Conservatives" (also known as the Christian right), and the "Pro-Government Conservatives" who are largely conservative on social issues but support government intervention to better their economic disposition.