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Ch 10: Helping Behaviors

Ch 10: Helping Behaviors. Part 2: Nov. 14, 2011. Situational Influences on Helping. Effect of crowds: The Bystander Effect Research on this began w/Kitty Genovese murder in 1964 in NYC Details of the incident? How did bystanders react?. Darley & Latane’s follow-up experiments:

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Ch 10: Helping Behaviors

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  1. Ch 10: Helping Behaviors Part 2: Nov. 14, 2011

  2. Situational Influences on Helping • Effect of crowds: The Bystander Effect • Research on this began w/Kitty Genovese murder in 1964 in NYC • Details of the incident? • How did bystanders react?

  3. Darley & Latane’s follow-up experiments: Confederate appear to have seizure …either alone, with 1 other participant, or 4 other participants What is ‘Diffusion of Responsibility’?

  4. Obstacles to helping in these situations? • Noticing • Interpreting • Shotland’s research on intervening in male-female assaults • The role of pluralistic ignorance • Responsibility • Deciding how to help

  5. Other situational influences on helping: • Rural/Urban areas: • Culture: • Role modeling:

  6. Who gets helped? • The roles of attractiveness & responsibility: • Gender: • Based on type of situation

  7. Increasing Helping • Note that people do not always want help • Increasing helping among bystanders - • Avoid the overjustification effect – • Issue among volunteer orgs:

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