This was first studied in the laboratory by Darley and Latane in 1968, and some explanations for it are pluralistic ignorance, social inhibition, and diffusion of responsibility.
This was first studied in the laboratory by Darley and Latane in 1968, and some explanations for it are pluralistic ignorance, social inhibition, and diffusion of responsibility. While the cases of Deletha Ward and James Bulger are well documented, the most famous case of this phenomenon is that of the 19 -year-old Kitty Genovese, in which 37 New Yorkers failed to help the victim of a stabbing. For ten points, name the effect in which an increased number of observers to an event requiring some response greatly decreases the likelihood of one's making that response.
This was first studied in the laboratory by Darley and Latane in 1968, and some explanations for it are pluralistic ignorance, social inhibition, and diffusion of responsibility.
{bystander} effect