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I'm confused here. What is the Bystander Effect? > The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are les
by irjustin 7y ago
I'm confused here. What is the Bystander Effect?
> The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that one of them will help. Several factors contribute to the bystander effect, including ambiguity, group cohesiveness, and diffusion of responsibility that reinforces mutual denial of a situation's severity.
Does that mean each individual is like likely to help _individually_ or does it mean that each _situation_ have less intervention?
Because if we're measuring individual response, then sure, I agree - if I'm hurt, I don't want 10 people rushing to me anyway.
i.e. if 1 bystander with 1x persons intervening = 100% response and then 2 bystanders with 1x persons intervening = 50% response...... I think this is a terrible way to measure it.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
- jacobolus 7y agoThe claim is that when there are several people standing around and some emergency arises, everyone will just assume someone else is going to help, and no one will end up helping.
- inlined 7y agoI’ve been taught multiple times that due to the bystander effect, should you take command of a situation and need to delegate you should always delegate specifically (e.g. tell one person to call 911 rather than shouting that someone should)
- eridius 7y agoWhile that's certainly good advice, I don't think that's really a "bystander effect" correction as it is if there's multiple people and nobody takes charge then nothing gets organized, and if you don't delegate specifically then nobody knows who you're talking to and this produces confusion.
- swish_bob 7y agoThe last two times I took a first aid course I was told to do this _specifically_ to override the bystander effect. Both times, the instructor named and explained the bystander effect, and said the best way to overcome it was to assign tasks to specific individuals.
- stordoff 7y agoI have specifically had this explained to me as being due to the bystander effect. "Someone call 999/911" - chances are no one will do it, due to the bystander effect; "You (points) call 999/911" - they probably will.