PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Sensory Overload, Field Experiment, Meta-Analysis
22 Apr 2013
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Had subjects wipe out in subway vs airport. At airport people are unfamiliar with the environment. In subway we are in a unambiguous situation. Whether they helped or not stopped them and made them fill out a survey and their familiarity with where they were (airport vs subway) Airport: frequent fliers are very helpful, but people who were not frequent fliers were unhelpful. **your level of comfort predicts if you will help or not ** They recruited seminary student to take part in filling out survey and go across campus where they had to talk about something. As they go across campus they were either in vast hurry or they weren"t. Being in a hurry is such a great cost to us that we don"t help. Helping in 36 cities of different sizes (levine) She found that size of the city does predict helping. When the population is dense (roads are packed)
