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There has been a lot of research into bystander behaviour.
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Describe and evaluate one or more explanations relating to human * Bystander behaviour or Altruism. (24 marks) There has been a lot of research into bystander behaviour. Latane and Darley produced a five-stage cognitive model of bystander behaviour to try to explain why people help or not. If the bystander answers no to any question then no help will be given. The model starts off with whether the bystander notices the event, they then have to define it as an emergency, next, they have to assume responsibility and decide that they know what to do. If they get this far they have to implement their decision and help the person in need. They have several reasons why people decide no and have many studies, outlined below to support their main concepts which are: * Diffusion of responsibility - the responsibility for helping is being shared with other people around. * Pluralistic...
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