A person lies bleeding in the street screaming for help, yet a group passing by does not call for help.
Fellow residents down the hall watch their neighbor get robbed. A person lies bleeding in the street screaming for help, yet a group passing by does not call for help. Reasons for such behavior include diffusion of responsibility as everyone assumes that someone else is going to help the person in need. Also called the Genovese effect, FTP, name this effect in psychology, where peer pressure and uncertainty result in inaction in situations of crisis.
Fellow residents down the hall watch their neighbor get robbed.
{Bystander effect}