PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Influence
1 Apr 2013
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Attacked for duration of 30-35 mins, man attacked her and she starts to scream, screams for help. Other people come out to look around, the attacker leaves because nobody called police and made a response. The attacker comes back and finishes the job. 38 witnesses but they weren"t sure what was happening so did not make a response. In the press new yorkers were called cruel apathetic creatures. Everyone looked out the window and deduced that nothing bad was happening because nobody else made a response. Latane and darley"s (1970) bystander intervention model: ambiguity. Takes us time to realize what an emergency is. (might be thinking it"s just children playing, or are filming making a movie? ) A lot of emergencies are ambiguous so we look around at what other people are doing. But what other people are doing are the exact same thing we are doing. (pluralistic ignorance: pluralistic ignorance. As the number of witnesses increases steadily up to.
