PSYC 360 1st Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture Deindividuation Outline of Current Lecture Helping Current Lecture Helping Coming to the aid of someone in need Kitty Genovese Steps between emergency and someone helping Emergency Happens Notice the Emergency Interpret it as an emergency Take responsibility Decide how to help Someone helps Bystander Effect The tendency for the presence of others to reduce the chance that we will help Dan Batson Study of Seminary members Prepared talk Jobs of Seminary Control Parable of Good Samaratan Experiment Deliver speech on other side of campus Find a person in an emergency on the way Some were told they were in a hurry less likely to help Group of Men Come In Fill out surveys Either alone or with 2 passive confederates Smoke comes through the vents 70 alerted experiment when alone only 10 when passive confederates 40 when with 3 naive participants Pluralistic Ignorance Assuming nothing is wrong because no one else appears to assume something is wrong Talking on the phone Woman has phone and has seizure 100 alerted someone when alone only 80 did if other person present Diffusion of Responsibility Failing to take responsibility on the assumption that someone else will Costs of Helping Embarrasment Yours Victim Shame Victim Non Helpers Potential Bad Guy