Piliavin et al
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- Piliavin et al (1969)
- Aims
- Type of victim
- Race of victim
- Example behaviour
- Number of witnesses
- Procedure
- A and D trains didn't stop for 7 and a half mins giving time for the 'emergency'
- 11am-3pm
- 70 seconds into journey the victim staggered and collapsed.
- Would remain looking up until help was given
- 103 trials
- Victim
- Male, Eisenhower jackets, old trousers, no tie
- Drunk condition, they smelled of alcohol, held a bottle of liquor.
- cane condition, sober, carried a black cane.
- Model
- White male
- Critical area - early(70s)
- Critical area late
- Adjacent area - early
- Adjacent area - late (150s)
- Observers
- Sex and location of every passenger and the number of people in carriage and how many aided the victim.
- Race, sex and location of everyone in the adjacent area and recorded the amount of time taken for someone to help
- Participants
- 4450 people
- 45% Black
- Results
- Cane victim received immediate help 62/65 trials whereas drunk victim received help 19/38 trials
- When drunk, tended to only be members of the same race who helped.
- If model helped early it triggered more helping behaviour.
- People were helped faster when there were more than 7 male passengers.
- 'I wish i could help him- im not strong enough'
- Conclusions
- ill is more likely to receive help than drunk
- Men are more likely to help than women
- Some tendency for same-race helping
- Help comes quicker when there are more witnesses
- The longer nobody helps for, the less impact a model's behaviour will have
- Aims
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