piliavin
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- Created on: 05-12-19 14:01
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- Piliavin
- Theories
- There is diffusion of responsibility - people don't help because they believe responsibility is shared
- There is bystander apathy - someone else will offer assistance
- Background
- Kitty Genovese was murdered and nobody helped despite hearing it
- Research Method
- Field experiment
- A and D trains of the NY subway (8th avenue)
- 4 IV's
- drunk/cane victim
- black/white victim
- effect of model (50/70s in critical/adjacent areas)
- size of witnessing groups
- 6 DV's observed by 2 females
- frequency of help
- speed of help
- race of helper
- sex of helper
- movement from critical area
- comments made by bystanders
- Sample
- nearly 4500 men and women
- people using subway between 11am and 3pm
- 45% black 55% white
- Procedure
- 4 teams of 4 researchers, 2 males (victim and model), 2 females (observers)
- victims: 3 black, 1 white. general studies students. 26-25. dressed alike
- drunk: smelled of alcohol and carried a bottle in a brown bag
- cane: appeared sober with a black cane
- 4 conditions (critical/adjacent and early/late
- 1 observer in adjacent area, one in critical
- after 70s the victim collapsed forwards
- 6-8 trials per day
- more cane than drunk - one group "didn't like" being drunk
- Findings
- cane victim received help 95% of the time spontaneous and 100% help overall
- drunk victim received help 50% of the time spontaneous and 81% overall
- cane got help more quickly and by 2+ people 60% of the time
- 90% of helpers were male
- slight same race helping in drunk condition
- no diffusion of responsibility found
- more comments were given to drunk victim
- more comments were given when there was no help in the first 70s
- Conclusions
- ill gets more help than drunk
- men are more likely than women to help
- more likely to help own race
- no relationship with help and number of bystanders
- help is likely when you can't escape
- cost-benefit analysis happens
- there is no diffusion of responsibility
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