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PSYCHOLOGY BEING INVESTIGATED is the Diffusion of
Responsibility (Latane and Darley, 1968) which stated that the larger
a group of people, the more likely they would share the responsibility
amongst themselves, therefore making them less likely to help; but
the smaller the group, the more likely they would be to help due to the
lack of responsibility shared
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Three of them were white and one was black
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for 38 trials, the victim would
smell of alcohol and carry a bottle in a brown bag; for the 65 trials, the victims appeared to be sober but carried a black cane

4 teams were used to collect data over 103 trials, each team consisting of four Columbia General
students--two males and two females, each male taking the role of the victim
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The victim always stood next to a
pole in the critical area, and after 70 seconds, they would stagger and collapse
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The study took place from 15 April to 26th June 1968, from eleven AM to
Three PM
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PILIAVIN

BACKGROUND: Twenty-eightyear old Catherine Genovese, at
3:20 AM, was chased and
murdered by a man while 38
bystanders, who woke up to
inspect the screams and
indirectly check on Kitty, did
nothing
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It is because of this
psychologists wish to investigate
BYSTANDER BEHAVIOUR
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The models were four males aged 24-29, dressed identically in casual clothes
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The DV (Helping) was measured in: time taken to help and the total number of passengers who
helped

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