PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pluralistic Ignorance, Payphone, Dictator Game

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 260
• Professor: Lara Aknin

Document Summary

When do people help: bystander intervention decision tree. Initial reaction of public: new yorkers are nasty. (internal attribution, we assumed person"s behaviour shows their personality) Is situation shaping beha(cid:448)iour (cid:894)po(cid:449)er of situation(cid:895), people didn"t inter(cid:448)ene (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause other people did not intervene: bystander intervention tree: people make several decisions before helping someone in an emergency. Notice event: if we are in a hurry we are less likely to notice a situation. Interpret emergency: pluralistic ignorance (bystanders assume nothing is wrong because other people look unconcerned) Assume responsibility: diffusion of responsibility (like social facilitation/relaxing), Decide to help (weigh costs): darley and latane study, go into lab, an when working on something the researchers pumped smoke into the room alone vs with 2 other people. Alone 75% people knocked on door and notified experimenter. In group then 38% of people reported the smoke, they look to others for cues and (cid:449)ere not (cid:449)orried (cid:272)uz the group (cid:449)asn"t (cid:449)orried.