PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Murder Of James Bulger, Pluralistic Ignorance
16 Apr 2013
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Different kinds: dimension: planning, severity, directness. Mcguire"s typology: casual, substantial, emotional, emergency. Five steps to emergency helping: noticing, interpreting, assuming responsibility, deciding, rendering. Time pressures: darley and batson, 1973: good samaritan study. On the way to the talk, a man who was slumped in a doorway and seemingly hurt was present, men who had time before their talk, 63% helped. When the priests were told they were late, 10% helped. Bystander effect: as the number of bystanders increase, emergency helping tends to decrease: kitty incident: woman is assaulted after work; over thirty witnesses overheard her screams but no one in the neighborhood bothered to call the police. In a half an hour period, the murderer assaulted her three different times and finally killed her after nobody helped her. Believing that n one else is feeling the way you are. The responsibility for taking action gets divided among the bystanders. Participants are talking over an intercom with either.
