Piliavin
- Created by: emma
- Created on: 08-03-14 11:17
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- Piliavin
- Aim
- to observe the effect of the following variables on helping behaviour in an emergency situation
- Background
- Cost reward system
- People only help if the rewards out way the costs
- Situational factors rather than individual differences that influence helping behaviour
- Cost reward system
- Procedure
- Two male and two female(observers) uni students entered different doors
- Observers sat in adjacent area. Males remained standing
- 1 observed race sex and location of every passenger in critical area and those who came to victims aid
- 1 observed race sex and location of everyone in the adjacent area and time taken
- 70 seconds into journey victim staggered forward, collapsed and remained on the floor
- Victim conditions
- Cane condition
- Appeared sober and carried a black cane
- Drunk condition
- Smelled of alcohol and carried a bottle in a brown paper bag
- aged between 26 and 35, 3 white, 1 black. Dressed identically
- Cane condition
- Model conditions
- Early intervention
- Model waited until passed the 4th station (70s) to help the victim
- Late intervention
- Model waited until passed the 6th station (150s) to help the victim
- Model in the critical or adjacent area
- control condition there was no model
- Early intervention
- Two male and two female(observers) uni students entered different doors
- Participants
- 4,450 men and women travelling on the 8th avenue subway
- Between 11:00 and 3:00 over 6 weeks
- Average racial composition 55% white 45% black
- Average no of people in carriage was 43
- average of 8.5 people in the critical area
- Conclusion
- Faster response times when more people in carriage
- To appease the fact hat they could not escape carriage
- Faster response times when more people in carriage
- Results
- Type of victim
- cane received spontaneous help 95% of times
- drunk received spontaneous help 50%
- Race of victim
- black victims received help less quickly especially in the drunk
- presence of model
- 17% of drunk helped before model helped
- 87% of cane helped before model helped
- 17% of drunk helped before model helped
- Grop size
- Most help came from largest gropu
- Type of victim
- Aim
- Group size
- to observe the effect of the following variables on helping behaviour in an emergency situation
- Victim conditions
- Cane condition
- Appeared sober and carried a black cane
- Drunk condition
- Smelled of alcohol and carried a bottle in a brown paper bag
- aged between 26 and 35, 3 white, 1 black. Dressed identically
- Cane condition
- Results
- Type of victim
- cane received spontaneous help 95% of times
- drunk received spontaneous help 50%
- Race of victim
- black victims received help less quickly especially in the drunk
- presence of model
- 17% of drunk helped before model helped
- 87% of cane helped before model helped
- 17% of drunk helped before model helped
- Grop size
- Most help came from largest gropu
- Type of victim
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