Piliavin's Study
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- Created on: 01-02-18 13:51
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- Piliavin
- Background
- Kitty Genovese she was stabbed over a period of 30 minutes in front of 38 unresponsive witnesses
- A field experiment conducted showed that individuals are more likely to be good Samaritans if they have just observed another individual performing a helpful act.
- Most research on victimisation has been conducted in a laboratory setting
- Area
- Social
- Aim
- To investigate helping in face to face real life settings and the influence of many different variables on the amount of helping.
- Sample
- Using the subway on weekdays between 11am and 3pm between April 15th to June 26th
- 4,500 men and women
- 45% Black and 55% white
- Sample recruitment
- Opportunity
- Research method
- Field experiment
- Covert observation
- Data
- Qualitative
- Spontaneous comments made by other passengers
- Quantitative
- Amount of people who helped or helped after the introduction of the model
- Qualitative
- Results
- Victims; ill = 95% + 100% after model, Drunk = 50% + 81% after model
- People are more likely to help those who are not to blame for their condition.
- Race = People are more likely to help the same race especially in drunk condition
- People feel more sympathy for those of the same race
- Model; Participants are more likely to help ill victim after early model
- For someone who is ill a model is more influential but has little impact in the drunk condition
- Size of group; responses were faster when in larger groups
- Diffusion of responsibility doesn't necessarily occur
- Quantitative; 90% of the first helpers were male
- Qualitative; People made more comments in the drunk condition and most were when no help was given in the first 70 seconds
- Victims; ill = 95% + 100% after model, Drunk = 50% + 81% after model
- Conclusions
- Incident provides a state of arousal (fear, disgust, sympathy) which people try to minimise by; helping, getting help, leaving, deciding victim doesn't deserve help
- Same race will empathise, victims helped faster when there was more people
- No evidence for diffusion of responsibility or bystander affect
- Background
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