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A Meta-Analytic Review On Bystander Intervention

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In the article “The Bystander-Effect: A Meta-Analytic Review on Bystander Intervention in Dangerous and Non-Dangerous Emergencies” explains the research done on bystanders and their likelihood to help an individual. The review on bystander research Latane and Darley (1970) proposed a five step psychological process model. They postulated that for intervention to occur, the bystander needs to (1) notice a critical situation, (2) construe the situation as an emergency, (3) develop a feeling of personal responsibility, (4) believe that he or she has the skills necessary to succeed, and (5) reach a conscious decision to help. To understand the more people around the person, that is in need of help the less someone will help as to do with diffusion of responsibility, which refers to the tendency to subjectively divide the personal responsibility …show more content…

This could explain the cognition of the students in the hallways not stopping to help because they don’t have the perception to help, due to what they have been brought to think. Also the thought process that some brains don’t go to the area of alertness, or danger because everyone else is walking pass and does not perceive it as an emergency. Bystanders may also not help because they see the emergency situation as being staged and not risk helping due to their own safety. For example a bystander in a dangerous emergency, while men were walking either alone (non-bystander

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