Piliavin
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- Created on: 26-04-14 17:15
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- Piliavin
- Aim
- Investigate different variables on helping behaviour
- Conclusion
- Characteristics of victim did not affect whether help was or was not offered
- Tendency for same-race helping only happened in the drunk condition
- Bystanders make decisions to help or not based on the costs or rewards involved
- Method
- IV
- Type of victim - drunk or ill
- Race of victim - black or white
- Presence of model - early or late
- The number of bystanders present
- DV
- Time taken for first passenger to offer help
- Gender, race, and location of every helper
- Total number of passengers who helped
- Time taken first passenger to offer help after the model had assisted
- IV
- Participants
- About 4450 men and women who used the trains on weekends between the hours of 11 and 3 during the period of 15th april to 26th June 1968
- Four teams
- Females observed and recorded data
- Males acted as victim and role model
- Findings
- People who appeared ill rather than drunk got help faster
- 90% of the first helpers were male
- People of the same race tended to help the same race victim
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Aim
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