Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Social Loafing, Hidden Curriculum

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

In group, people feel less inclined to take action. Individual may feel less inclined to take action because of presence of others in the group. One may be lack of medical knowledge, or limited experience in assistance and think someone else would do it diffusion of responsibility theory. When individuals are in presence of others, feel less personal responsibility. Amplified by amount of people in the group. If you were to collapse in small group, less chance of bystander effect. If only few people, more likely that people would be more inclined to take action and help you. Bystander effect can lead to little happening by any individual. One example is story of kitty genovese who was stabbed, raped, and robbed while 38 people were in vicinity. Deindividuation those in group are more likely to act inappropriately because crowd conceals person"s identity. Good example is behavior of some on black. Presence of large group of individuals decreases their inhibition/guilt.