Amongst the highly acknowledged studies or researches ever done in the field of psychology is the Why we don’t help others: Bystander Apathy which was inspired by the highly publicized murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 and was investigated by John Darley and Bibb Latane. The participants who undertook the study were invited in the lab under the pretex and were supposed to participate in an open discussion based on personal problems. This included participants talking or socializing to several others who were strangers to them and this varied from one to four in each experiment trials. The experimenters in this case sought to measure how long it took the participants to intervene in another person’s aid.
how would you respond to this I came close to doing a research on this. It reminded me of the show What Would You Do. I like to watch this show and say to myself oh I would help that person. People are put into situations and they record to see if someone would help them if its a man acting homeless in despair or someone that their credit card gets denied at a grocery store.
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