One study involved people listening to a cassette tape in front of microphones, which were supposedly turned off until their turn to talk, while another likened this phenomenon to social diffusion and involved smoke-filled rooms and seizures.
This phenomenon, along with the Caporael Dilemna, is part of a broader idea studied by Karau and Williams, which Rothwell claimed could be combated with the "Three C's." Tice and Baumeister hypothesized that it is influenced by personality and Philip Beaman suggested combating it by teaching people psychology. Russell Clark and Larry Word performed one study on it involving electric wire. Another was done by John Darley and Bibb Latane, who suggests that it has an implicit type. One study involved people listening to a cassette tape in front of microphones, which were supposedly turned off until their turn to talk, while another likened this phenomenon to social diffusion and involved smoke-filled rooms and seizures. Most closely associated with Kitty Genovese and her murder, it is a form of social loafing. FTP, name this effect where people fail to intervene in crises on the assumption that someone else will.
This phenomenon, along with the Caporael Dilemna, is part of a broader idea studied by Karau and Williams, which Rothwell claimed could be combated with the "Three C's.
{Bystander} Effect [accept: {Genovese} Effect until mention; prompt on