PSYA02H3 Lecture : Social Psychology. Lecture 3&4 [mar7&mar9]
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bystander apathy: situation where there is danger, people don"t usually help people are apathetic, others act heroically, in 1960s, a woman (genovese) walking home was followed and was stabbed. many apartment buildings surrounded, with 38 witnesses, only half an hour or more is it that one of them went to make a phone call to call the police. If you do not assume responsibility, you do not provide assistance (#4) cost: selfish explanation that people have to stop their activities to help others i. ii. The higher the cost, the less people are likely to help. Cost could be danger, embarrassment, etc: how to provide assistance (if not knowing how to react, might not react, reaction/helping. historical anecdote: uoft is known for their expertise in studying memory www. notesolution. com. endal tolving (sp?) studied a patient known as k. c. who had been in a bad motorcycle accident and experienced massive brain injury.
