The Bystander Effect: Safety in Numbers?
Title: The Bystander Effect: Safety in Numbers?
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 1865 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Bystander Effect: Safety in Numbers?
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 1865 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
On the night of March 13, 1964 at 3:10 in the morning, 28 year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed repeatedly in front of an audience of 38 people. She screams, "Oh my God, he stabbed me! Please help me!" Instead of rushing to her side, the crowd only stares. Many of them turn and look the other way. One person yells from a nearby window, "Hey, leave that girl alone." The assailant takes off running, and Kitty is left on the …showed first 75 words of 1865 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1865 total…Choice: Individuation, Reason, and Order vs. <Tab/>Deindividuation, Impulse, and Chaos" Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Ed. <Tab/>W. J. Arnold. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969. 237-307.
"The Killing of Kitty Genovese" Newsweek. 13 March 1964: Retrieved November 13, <Tab/>2004. http://www.lihistory.com/8/hs/818a.htm
"Bystander Effect". Wikipedia On Line Encyclopedia. 2004. Retrieved November 13, <Tab/>2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
