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The Bystander Effect Experiment

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While many people think they know how they would act in a certain situation are they sure? If faced with the option of ignoring someone’s behavior or saying something to them which would any of us do? Most people would like to think they would do the right thing in any situation. The Bystander Effect experiment was an experiment to see just how people would react to someone in pain on the street in everyday life. This experiment helped to understand why people are less likely to help when there are other people around. The people in the Bystander Effect experiment would pass by man dressed in casual clothes just because everyone else did. However, when it came to a woman laying on the same steps it took 4 minutes and 38 seconds people to
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