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What types of people are bystanders most likely to help? If you were going to try to increase prosocial helping behaviour, what are the four things you might try?
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According to John Darley and Bibb Latané, what are the two primary mechanisms that may be responsible for the failure of bystanders to help during emergencies? Describe each of them. What types of people are bystanders most likely to help? If you were going to try to increase prosocial helping behaviour, what are the four things you might try? Modern concern with bystander behaviour began with the brutal rape and murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, New York City: an act witnessed by thirty-eight of her neighbours, none of whom did so much as lift a telephone to alert authorities (Myers, 1999). More recently, the killing of 10 year old Damilola Taylor of North Peckham, ignored by those who passed as he bled to death . Incidents like these have led to studies of why we live in a 'walk on by' society. Two social psychologists Bibb Latané and John...
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