PSY 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Asociality, Natural Surveillance, Biophilia Hypothesis
29 Mar 2018
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Overload - inability to process inputs from the environment because there are too many. Milgram says people change in urban settings. Put up boundaries to put burdens on others. Create institutions to absorb inputs that would swamp individual (welfare) People less likely to help when in a group because of 2 theories: situational ambiguity - less clear (ambiguous) whether a situation is an emergency when among others. If others are around and not doing anything, you might start to wonder if its an emergency: diffusion of responsibility - when others are around, the responsibility can be put on other people. Levine et al. had students ring doorbells to ask to use phones. Urban and rural areas, fewer entries in urban. Milgram argues that adaptations to urban living involver establishment of new norms. Oscar newman argued that crime in inner city buildings are due in part to the design of these buildings.
